African Kingdoms

Ghana

300

The actual name of the Empire was Wagadugu, Ghana was the title of the kings who ruled the kingdom. It is the earliest known empire.

Mali

Mar 30, 700

The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became notorious for the wealth of its ruler. Located in west Africa along the niger river. At its peak it consisted of roughly 40 to 50 million people

Kilwa (Sometimes called "Kilwa Sultanate")

Mar 30, 1000

Once the most popular trading post in east Africa.Trade was mainly in gold and iron from Zimbabwe, ivory and slaves from Tanzania, and textiles, jewellery, porcelain, and spices from Asia.

Hausa

Mar 30, 1100

Located in northwestern Niger to northern Nigeria.Since the beginning of Hausa history, the seven states of Hausaland divided up production and labor activities depending on each location and their natural resources.

Great Zimbabwe

Mar 30, 1100

Located in present day Zimbabwe. Their most enduring and impressive remains are its stone walls. they were made from granite blocks from the exposed rock of the surrounding hills. it provided a convenient and readily available building resource.

Songhai

Mar 30, 1340

Kingdom came from a very fertile area great for farming. Located on both banks of the Niger river.Considered largest empire ever to be created in tropical Africa.

Yoruba (Oyo)

Mar 30, 1400

This empire dominated all Yoruba kingdoms: Ife, Ijesha, Egba, Ijebu, Sabe and Owu. The Oyo palace is estimated to be sitting on about 640 acres. We still have excavations of the old Oyo empire, and centuries after, some of the walls of the Capital of old Oyo empire, are still standing in its original form.

Benin (not present day)

Mar 30, 1440

Located on the coastal region of East Africa. Benin's royal histories relate that the court's brass casters learned their art from an Ife master named Iguegha, who had been sent from Ife around 1400 at the request of Benin's oba Oguola. They have placed Ijebu under its dominion.

Mutapa

Mar 30, 1450

It stretched between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers of Southern Africa in the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The dynasty’s foundation to Mbire, a semi mythical ruler of the 14th century, his great-great-grandson Nyatsimba, who ruled in the late 15th century, was the actual creator of the empire.

African Empirea

Period: Mar 30, 2000 to Mar 30, 2000