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Al-Bakri
Al-Bakri was an Andalusian geographer and historian who wrote a description of North and West Africa completed around 1067. His account, based on reports from merchants and travellers, contains the most detailed early description of the Ghana Empire, its capital, its king, its army and its trade in gold. It is a key source for Ghana's history.
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