Songhai in Pictures. Griots – storytellers Oral history is simply a different way to pass information, it is no less valid than written language. Leaving.

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Songhai in Pictures

Griots – storytellers Oral history is simply a different way to pass information, it is no less valid than written language. Leaving out societies with oral histories means world history is incomplete. Using only the pictures on the following slides, tell me the story of the Songhai Empire in West Africa (roughly )

Manuscript from Timbuktu

Math and Astronomy Manuscripts

View of Timbuktu, by Dieudonné Lancelot based on a sketch by Heinrich Barth

Songhai architecture in Timbuktu today

Tomb of Askia the Great, king of Songhai

The Great Mosque of Djenne

Aerial view of the Great Mosque of Djenne

Interior of the Great Mosque of Djenne

Aerial view of Timbuktu

Aerial View of Djenne

Timbuktu looking west, René Caillié (1830)

Traders headed for Timbuktu. Artist and date unknown.

Salt sold at a modern Timbuktu market in the traditional manner

From the Ashanti, located southwest of Songhai

Songhai Cavalry