African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

CONTENTS
Prologue

PART I Early Sahel and Savannah
1 The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context
2 Early Gao
3 The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River
4 Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān

PART II Imperial Mali
5 The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of Imperial Mali
6 Mansā Mūsā and Global Mali
7 Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa

PART III Imperial Songhay
8 Sunni ‘Alī and the Reinvention of Songhay
9 The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge
10 Renaissance: The Age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad
11 Of Clerics and Concubines

PART IV Le Dernier de l’Empire
12 Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay
13 Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dāwūd
14 The Rending Asunder: Dominion’s End
Epilogue A Thousand Years