Songhai in a sentence

Judge Songhai Armstead, director of the Justice, Care and Opportunities Department at the grand opening for safe housing in Long Beach for justice-impacted women and families in partnership with Holliday’s Helping Hands on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.

The word also appears in Mandinka, Songhai languages, Teda, and in other West African polities where Islam is predominant.

Resolution of the dispute between Med Songhai Developers Ltd (the original Ghanaian Project partner) over Aker’s attempts to push it out of the Project.

The ‘Dynasty’ would be deserted, and New York City would then become present-day Gao (in Mauritania), the erstwhile flourished city of Songhai.

The Deputy General Secretary of the community, Swadiq Muhammad Huzaif who spoke for the delegation, pledged that the Songhai people in Ghana would continue to respect the country's laws and promote peace and security.

The obliteration of the Songhai Empire from African cartography catalysed the systematic “negroisation” of Africans “at home and abroad” by students of European anthropology during the 19th Century.

Trying to resurrect the southern Cameroon’s is to bring backwards the actual generation which nobody with common sense can accept otherwise let us go back to the Songhai,Turk or even middle empires.

And by 1420, Songhai was strong enough to exact tribute from Masina.

Askia Muhammad made Songhai the largest empire in the history of West Africa.

Askiya Nuhu and the Songhay army regrouped at Dendi in the heart of Songhai territory where a spirited guerrilla resistance sapped the resources of the Moroccans, who were dependent upon constant resupply from Morocco.

Concurrently the Saifawa Dynasty of Borno conquered Kanem and extended control west to Hausa cities not under Songhai authority.

From the mid-15th to the late 16th century, Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history.

Greenberg's later contribution came in 1963, when he tied Chari–Nile to Songhai, Saharan, Maban, Fur, and Koman-Gumuz and coined the current name Nilo-Saharan for the resulting family.

In 1994, Tuareg, reputed to have been trained and armed by Libya, attacked Gao, which again led to major Malian Army reprisals and to the creation of the Ghanda Koi Songhai militia to combat the Tuareg.

Koman and Gumuz remain poorly attested, and so are difficult to work with, while arguments continue over the inclusion of Songhai.

Largely because of Songhai's influence, there was a blossoming of Islamic learning and culture.

Other significant groups are the Fula (French Peul main; Fula Fulɓe main) (17 percent), Voltaic (12 percent), Songhai (6 percent), and Tuareg and Moor (10 percent).

Rupley, p. xxvioi During the early 16th century the Songhai conducted many slave raids into what is today Burkina Faso.

Songhai was also weakened by internal discord, which led to factional warfare.

Sorghum was a popular grain for making couscous, and the Moroccan Berber word for sorghum, illan or ilni, is the same as the word in the West African language of Songhai, illé, lending further circumstantial evidence for an African genesis for couscous.