Queens, Merchants, and Empires: The Hidden Kingdoms of West Africa

While Europe built cathedrals and Asia's silk roads hummed with commerce, West Africa was doing something the history books have largely ignored - constructing the medieval world's most sophisticated political systems, richest trading networks, and most enduring empires. Most readers know the names Ghana, Mali, Songhai. Few know what lay beyond them. Queens, Merchants, and Empires recovers the for...