10th century geographer Al-Bakri, quoted in Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Click here to listen to Al-Bakri describing the opulence surrounding the King of Ghana The ...

Stories of the kingdom of Kaabu's reign have been told for generations through a kind of traditional song. Now, an archaeological dig has confirming the histories told and retold by griots.

From the 16th to the 19th centuries, the kingdom of Kaabu dominated a swath of West Africa that included modern ... The story goes that once the king saw the enemy army nearing the capital of ...