1. Songhai in Pictures

2. 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 1375-1600)

4. Manuscript from Timbuktu

5. Math and Astronomy Manuscripts

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

7. Songhai architecture in Timbuktu today

8. Tomb of Askia the Great, king of Songhai

9. The Great Mosque of Djenne

10. Aerial view of the Great Mosque of Djenne

11. Interior of the Great Mosque of Djenne

12. Aerial view of Timbuktu

13. Aerial View of Djenne

14. Timbuktu looking west, René Caillié (1830)

15. Traders headed for Timbuktu. Artist and date unknown.

16. Salt sold at a modern Timbuktu market in the traditional manner

17. From the Ashanti, located southwest of Songhai

18. Songhai Cavalry