Thank you for making this video, i am currently playing Ck3 and am looking to delve deep into africa and i realized how little i know about it despite being African diaspora. You can play as Ghana and the sounding african kingdoms as well.
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@@obibiniba If I’m not mistaken J.C. Degraft-Johnson a Ghanaian historian proposed this. However the Soninke language and the Twi languages are in completely different language families. Thus it’s highly unlikely that there’s some connection there.
With that being said. The Soninke merchant class known as traders of gold had an enormous trade network in West Africa. And to this day, we can find Mande speakers in modern Ghana nearby the goldmines. That's the only link I can think of between Modern Ghana and Ancient Ghana/Wagadu.
If you watch the video to the end, the creator explained that the Gold Coast on gaining independence in 1957 adopted the name of the long gone empire (Ghana).
Thanks for this. Sick of looking up African history and seeing enslaved people pop up first. If that ain’t propaganda, then I don’t know what is. Africa was/is a powerful continent.
@fiifiegyir6947 Gold Coast was given to the country Ghana by the European invaders. Who were the present day Ghanaians before the name Gold Coast came about and so on…
The Almoravids were in alliance with the kingdom of Takrur. Which was a vassal of the Ghana Empire, the commoners of Takrur were forcefully islamized by king War Jabi according to Al-Bakri. This, likely a contributor for the Almoravids to sack Kumbi, the capital. Also because Wagadu was the dominant force for that part of the Trans-Saharan trade network.
Well you got to think about it Morocco is definitely not far from where this kingdom was located, most of the kingdom was situated in Mauritania and Mali which is literally a hop skip and a jump away from Morocco
Well following the evidence. The only link the modern day Ghana has to ancient Ghana is the Soninke traders. Known as the Wangara which later became a ethnicity. That also included Mandinka speaking groups. These Soninke descendants are still in modern Ghana today in a city named Begho. All in all. It needs more deep research.
Yes begho is where we settled initially when we arrived in ghana but we further dispersed up north forming the Savannah region of present day ghana(GONJAs). We are the Mende warriors of Old Gh empire. And yes some of us are in “begho” 🙏🏾
