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Today, the Songhai Empire is all but forgotten by history. But this medieval kingdom was once the most powerful force in Africa.

Find out how this civilization grew up on the fringes of the Sahara Desert, among some of the most extreme conditions that nature can throw at us. Discover how it grew and flourished, passing through a process known as the imperial cycle, and learn about what ultimately caused its sudden and dramatic collapse.

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Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas

Voice Actors:

Jake Barrett-Mills
Rhy Brignell
Bryan Tshiobi
Pip Willett

Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: incompetech.com/

Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/

Special thanks to the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) and Emma Silvester at Royal African Safaris for footage of the Dabous Giraffe: www.africanrockart.org

The Clotilda was the last known slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to America in 1860. The burned ship was discovered in Alabama – not far from where many of the descendants live today. The stories of those enslaved Africans have been passed down for generations.

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A big thanks to John Truden from the University of Oklahoma for sharing your expertise on this history.

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Thank you to those at the Chikasha Academy Adult Immersion Program, and the Seminole Nation Immersion School for helping us with some translations.

We sampled some archival Native American songs in our original music, many are recorded in the Library of Congress. Check out some of those here:
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Johnny Harris is an Emmy-winning independent journalist and contributor to the New York Times. Based in Washington, DC, Harris reports on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe, publishing to his audience of over 3.5 million on Youtube. Harris produced and hosted the twice Emmy-nominated series Borders for Vox Media. His visual style blends motion graphics with cinematic videography to create content that explains complex issues in relatable ways.

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