Rise of the Sosso Kingdom

Name: Rise of the Sosso Kingdom
Start: 1190
End: 1200

Type Event Region Africa Time 1190–1200

In the late 12th century, the Sosso kingdom rapidly expanded across the West African Sahel-Sudan zone, seizing territory from the Ghana Empire and be…

Timeline

1190–1195Sosso Kingdom · West AfricaAfter the decline of the Mandinka polities and Ghana, the Sosso people consolidated military force and established control over surrounding city-states and trade routes.
1196–1200Eastern frontier of the Ghana Empire · SahelSosso forces advanced eastward, occupying towns and trade-route nodes of the Ghana Empire, as the political center of West Africa began shifting eastward.

Sources

Ghana | historical West African empire https://www.britannica.com/place/Ghana-historical-West-African-empire
A History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century — Basil Davidson (1969)