Islamization of Africa II:| Rethinking the Spread of Islam: West Africa

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‘Conquest that never was…’Fisher: ‘the written sources” [Arabic accounts]- contemporary written sources, late 11 th & 12 thcenturies, were ‘silent’ on such a conquest- one states only that “in 1076, Ghana became Muslim”- first mention of ‘conquest’ was 14 th century account:three centuries later
‘Conquest that never was…’Conrad: ‘the oral sources’ [local oral traditions]- he examined ‘Sudanese’ oral traditions: legends, epicspassed down through generations by griots [‘oral’historians]- in local traditions, name ‘Ghana’ not used: knownrather as ‘Wagadu’ and ‘Kumbi’- Wagadu founding tradition: ruin of the state associatedwith slaying of gigantic snake, Bida, whose severedhead delivers a ‘curse’ on Wagadu
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