Region: Sahara
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Trans-Saharan Connections: Gold, Slavery, Scholarship
The Sahara connected the Maghreb, Sahel, West Africa, and Mediterranean through gold, enslaved people, scholarship, pilgrimage, books, and political power. This page explains those connections without turning them into a single simplified story about…