Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan français), Tome 2 (de 3): l'histoire
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"Haut-Sénégal-Niger (Soudan français), Tome 2 (de 3): l'histoire" by Delafosse is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It reconstructs the political and cultural history of the western Sudan (Haut-Sénégal–Niger), with particular emphasis on the rise, geography, and sources concerning the medieval empire of Ghana and its neighbors, drawing on Arabic chronicles, travel accounts, and material traces.
The opening of the work sets out the limits of knowledge before the common era, arguing that reliable history in this region begins only in the early centuries AD; ancient writers offer little beyond vague remarks, archaeology is inconclusive (stone tools, rock art, and the enigmatic Lobi ruins), and inscriptions are either rare tifinagh or later Arabic tombstones from the fourteenth century. The narrative then turns to Ghana: it methodically situates the capital in the Aoukar near Néma–Oualata based on Ibn Hawqal and al-Bakri, rejects the later, confused placement by al-I
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