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The Songhai Empire's Spies: Inside the Koyam Intelligence Network
Lucas and Luna crack open the history of the Songhai Empire's intelligence service — the Koyam network. Long before modern state surveillance, Askia Dawud and his successors maintained a shadow system of informants, secret files, and cross-border agents that reached from Gao to Timbuktu and beyond. Lucas explains how the Koyam monitored the empire's vast territories, tracked potential rebellions among the Hausa, Mossi, and Fulani, and even reported on the Saadian preparations that would lead to the invasion. Drawing on the Tarikh al-Sudan and other sources, the episode reveals the…
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