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Askia the Great

c. 1443–1538 · Africa · Early Modern

Emperor who expanded Songhai and made Timbuktu a seat of learning.

Birthplace
Africa
Known as
Emperor who expanded Songhai and made Timbuktu a seat of learning.

Askia the Great (c. 1443–1538) endures among the great of Africa. Emperor who expanded Songhai and made Timbuktu a seat of learning. Across the early modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

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