West Africa & Sahara
Cross a world of caravan routes, gold, salt, sacred cities, desert stone, ocean empires, and restless revolutions at the edge of the dunes.
West Africa and Sahara treats the desert as a corridor, with caravans, libraries, pilgrim roads, gold fields, courts, and cities carrying power across vast distances.
The route highlights Timbuktu, Mansa Musa, Ibn Battuta, caravan routes, and desert landmarks. These scenes show achievements in learning, wealth, navigation, and religious life.
The route then moves through trans-Saharan commerce, Islamic scholarship at Timbuktu, colonial boundaries, anti-colonial politics, and revolutionary governments, tracking how gold, salt, manuscripts, and state power crossed difficult terrain.
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