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Islamic History in Africa

  • Timbuktu's Golden Age as a Center of Islamic Scholarship (Article)
  • The 2012–2013 Rescue of Timbuktu's Ancient Manuscripts (Article)
  • Mansa Musa's 1324 Pilgrimage to Mecca (Article)
  • The Siddis: India's Real African Diaspora, and the Myth of 'Indo-Negroids' (Article)
  • The Kilwa Sultanate and the Mystery of Its Coins in Australia (Article)
  • Bilal ibn Rabah: The Formerly Enslaved Ethiopian Who Became Islam's First Muezzin (Article)
  • How Swahili Became Africa's Most Widely Spoken Bantu Language (Article)
  • Africa's Biggest Precolonial Empires: What's Verified, and What Just Sounds True (Article)
  • Kanem-Bornu: One of Africa's Longest-Lived States (Article)
  • The Mali Empire: Sundiata's Kingdom, Mansa Musa's Wealth, and a Century-Long Fade (Article)
  • The Sokoto Caliphate: West Africa's Most Populous 19th-Century State (Article)
  • The Songhai Empire: West Africa's Last Great Sahelian Power (Article)
  • African Kingdoms & Empires: The Great States of Precolonial Africa (Pillar)
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