Soninke gold-trading empire of the western Sahel, the first great Sudanic state.
Declined after c. 1076 amid Almoravid pressure on its capital Koumbi Saleh; weakened, its vassals broke away and it was absorbed by the Sosso and then the Mali Empire by the 13th century.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Ghana Empire (Wagadou) — the shape you scrub through changes in 300 · 550 · 900.
A vivid, source-based account of medieval West Africa's great empires, Ghana (Wagadou), Mali and Songhai.
The Ghana empire within the broad story of medieval West African empires.