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Sonni dynasty
The Sonni dynasty was a line of rulers of Songhai based at Gao. Its most famous ruler, Sunni Ali, transformed Songhai into an empire in the second half of the fifteenth century. It was replaced by the Askia dynasty in the 1490s.
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