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Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire

Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire

John O. Hunwick · 1999 · 450 pages

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The other contemporary documents included are a new English translation of Leo Africanus's description of West Africa, some letters relating to Sa'dian diplomacy and conquests in the Sahara and Sahel, al-Ifrani's account of Sa'dian conquest of Songhay, and an account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard.

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