During the late Middle Ages, a ‘pagan’ power from the interior of West Africa confronted the great empires of Mali and Songhai, and briefly extended its influence over the merchant towns of the Sahel, including Timbuktu.
Thanks you for this article. I like that you focused on these indigenous Kingdoms that tend to get overlooked and where organized and existed 1000 years before Islam came in to replace a somewhat similar but more Ancient religion in the Sudan that went as far west and South. It was eventually called "Amun-Ra" or "Amen -Ra." and the people were called Sa-Ra. People of the one God a Religion that eventually went to the upper Nile and into West Africa past Lake Chad. I think the Dogon may have been an off shoot of it and the Kushites took on the religion. Also another reason why the Trans Saharan Slave Trade was over exaggerated before 1400 AD as these Southern people below the Sudan were well organized and could defeat raiders coming from above the Senegal River and Sahel and they would be servants for them Lol
There's actually a sort of royal pagan "charm" that was worshipped in pre-13th century Kanem (Chad) called the Mune, which one scholar, Deirk Lange, speculated that it may have been the Amun deity from Nubia.
Thanks you for this article. I like that you focused on these indigenous Kingdoms that tend to get overlooked and where organized and existed 1000 years before Islam came in to replace a somewhat similar but more Ancient religion in the Sudan that went as far west and South. It was eventually called "Amun-Ra" or "Amen -Ra." and the people were called Sa-Ra. People of the one God a Religion that eventually went to the upper Nile and into West Africa past Lake Chad. I think the Dogon may have been an off shoot of it and the Kushites took on the religion. Also another reason why the Trans Saharan Slave Trade was over exaggerated before 1400 AD as these Southern people below the Sudan were well organized and could defeat raiders coming from above the Senegal River and Sahel and they would be servants for them Lol
There's actually a sort of royal pagan "charm" that was worshipped in pre-13th century Kanem (Chad) called the Mune, which one scholar, Deirk Lange, speculated that it may have been the Amun deity from Nubia.