What was the Songhai Empire?
Songhai was the largest empire in African history, Family. At its height in the 1400s, it stretched across West Africa with sophisticated government, military, and educational systems. Timbuktu flourished under Songhai rule - its universities were world-famous. Askia Muhammad made it a center of Islamic scholarship and trade. When Europeans were in the Dark Ages, Africans were building empires of knowledge and gold.