The Soninke-Marabout War

Despite the wealth and power of Mali, they suffered with weak rulers and internal conflict. Although, Mali did not fall from political collapse they slowly lost their control on trade and resources. The region of Niumi experienced a political, social, and economic change when the era of the Soninke-Marabout war began due to the sonike rulers wanting peanut exports. By 1600, there was a new state beginning to fill the political space that Mali had declined but the trade and education still flourished. When Niumi began to gain wealth from peanut production, people from other places started to reside in Niumi to make peanut crops, sell them and then returned home with the profit. With outsiders wanting to expand the peanut crops, the Europeans
Africa in World History written by Erik Gilbert and Jonathan Reynolds states that Sundiata helped build Mali that stretched across the Niger River and is one of the world’s great empires. The towns along the river were Timbuktu and Gao. Mali became one of the richest states because they taxed the flow of trade across the border; Mali was extended west and east of Ghana. With more trade, Mali spent more time with the Muslims in the north. This started the growth of Islam which began in 1324 and 1325 with the pilgrimage of Mansa Musa. Mansa Musa became legendary because of the generosity and the spending of gold that skyrocketed in Alexandria. Mansa Musa spent time with Venetian merchants whom later returned to Europe and shared tales of the African King and his
Over half a century after 1770, the selling of slaves was decreasing and other trade was beginning to come into place. Most of the money came from tolls on shipping and passing through Niumi. The slave trade didn’t change Niumi’s political, social and economic status, it was the Britishers and their attitudes that they had when they came from Gambia following the Napoleonic wars. The British men commanded more power than the ruling of Niumi. They held different attitudes about how the trade business was processing and who was in charge. The British recognized that there was distance between the Africans surrounded by them and themselves because of the cultural, social and technological difference. The British produced a decline in Niumi’s sovereignty and their way of life because they began to insure their superiority in the relationship. This caused the people of Niumi to live as elites for several