The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa

For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.

• Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali
• Sundiata: Lion King of Mali
• Precolonial Black Africa
• Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization
• Mansa Musa: Leader of Mali: World Cultures Through Time (Primary Source Readers)
• The Story of the Moors in Spain
• They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Journal of African Civilizations)
• The Ancient Kingdoms of Africa: The History and Legacy of the African Continent’s Most Prominent Kingdoms in Antiquity
• Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions (Picture Puffin Books)
• Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.