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| A country in West Africa, with a southern coastline that borders on the Atlantic Ocean; pop. 20,750,000; capital, Accra; languages, English (official) and West African languages |
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| A landlocked country in West Africa, south of Algeria, in the Sahel except for desert in the north; pop. 11,900,000; capital, Bamako; languages, French (official) and others mainly of the Mande group |
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| Came to power by crushing a cruel, unpopular leader. Then, in the words of a Mande oral Tradition, " the world knew no other master but Sundiata."Became Mali's Mansa , Or Emperor. |
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| who may have been Sundiata's grandnephew. Mansa Musa ruled from about about 1312 to 1332. Skilled military Leader. |
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| A native of Tangier in North Africa, He Had Traveled for 27 years, visiting most of the countries in the Islamic World. |
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| People to the East. Built up an Army and extended their territory to the large bend in the Niger River near Gao. |
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| Were a Group of people named after the language they spoke. The city-states of the Hausa people first emerged between the years 1000 and 1200 in the savanna area east of Mali and Songhai in what is today Northern Nigeria. |
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| A member of a people of southwestern Nigeria and Benin |
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| A country in West Africa, just west of Nigeria; pop. 7,250,000; capital, Porto Novo; languages, French (official), West African languages |
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| A Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries |
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| Great Zimbabwe is a ruined city that was once the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe, which existed from 1270 to 1550 AD during the country’s Late Iron Age. |
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| was a medieval kingdom which stretched between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers of southern Africa in the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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