Rodrigo Quijada Plubins published on 11 March 2013 Ghana was a
kingdom in Africa that lasted from the 6th to the 13th century
CE, located south of the Sahara desert and northwest of the
Niger river in modern day Mauritania and Mali. Thanks to the
introduction of the camel into the Sahara and its increasing
availability and use in Roman times in the first centuries CE,
trans-Saharan trade routes (north-south) became feasable,
allowing African societies in the Sahel access to the markets of
the Mediterranean Sea. As these routes grew more profitable,
cities such as Djenne Jeno and Gao arose and in time more
complex and powerful territorial states appeared, with Ghana
being the first of them. The people who formed the Ghana kingdom
were the Soninke, a subgroup of the Mande-speaking family. They
called their kingdom Wagadu, but we know it as Ghana, the name
the Arabs gave it. The kingdom’s golden age began around 800 CE
and lasted for nearly three centuries. Ghana’s capital changed
several times but the last and