State
Ghana Empire
The Ghana Empire, known internally as Wagadou, was a Soninke state in the western Sahel that flourished from around the eighth to the eleventh century. Controlling trade between the goldfields to the south and trans-Saharan routes, it became famous for its wealth. It declined in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and its lands were later absorbed into the Mali Empire.
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