The Gold of Wangara (2)
Hi guys, Image: An improvised flea market at Sahel Courtesy: Photo: PGskot | CC BY-SA 4.0 I began processing the data I have collected about the Wangara traders. This association was a merchant network that linked the gold producers of West Africa with the entrepots in the Sahel. Gold for the salt exchange was the most obvious but not the only one avenue of this counteraction. The material is controversial and I am unsure what will the outcome be. For example, what weight I would give for the empires of Western Sudan: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay. There is much data but since I am a novice in African history, it is not easy to decide where I should stop. Besides, my main interest in this project seems to be maritime discoveries, so how much room should be provided for economic and human interest history? The first three chapters of my projects are available on my page at Academia: https://www.academia.edu/41214506/How_Wide_Spans_the_Oce...