Find out what precolonial West Africa was like with BBC Bitesize History. ... The 15th century also saw the rise of the Songhai Empire and their Warrior King, Sonni Ali, ...

In the 1590s, Saadi sultan Ahmad al-Mansur appointed Spanish military leader Judar Pasha to lead a campaign, conquering the Songhai empire in West Africa. Thanks to his army, Morocco took control ...

Fourth, Nigeria is one of only a few post-colonial African states that still cling to their colonial names. At the same time, Songhai is the only defunct West African empire of its stature and ...

The earliest and most powerful of the kingdoms that emerged in West Africa, based on trading networks along the Niger and Senegal Rivers, were the Ghana, Mali, and Songhai empires, which dominated the ...

At its height during the 1920s and 1930s, France’s global empire spread out across 4.9-million square miles.

International Women's Day 2013: Stunning Pictures of Colourful Songhai and Tuareg Headdress from West Africa. By Simi John Published 09 March 2013, 1:55 PM GMT.