This man reportedly besieged one city for seven years, seven months and seven days.
This man reportedly besieged one city for seven years, seven months and seven days. Another of his sieges resulted in the chieftain Akil fleeing to Walata. With his brother Selmar Nar, this man fled the army of KanKan Musa as a youth. This man conquered the territories of the Mossi and the (*) Tuaregs, but drowned coming home from a campaign against the Fulani. According to legend, this man was a powerful sorcerer, a strong contrast with his strongly Islamic successors. He built a navy of canoes on the Niger, and killed some scholars in his sack of Timbuktu. Succeeded by Askia Mohammed, for 10 points, name this founder of the Songhai Empire.
This man reportedly besieged one city for seven years, seven months and seven days.
{Sonni Ali} Ber