#abubakaribnumar #AbuYusufYaqubalMansur #almoravids #almohad #marrakesh #tenkamenin #soninke #ghanaempire #wagadou The names have some like wth & who? What does it have to do with me? A lot, considering the fall of one great empire was the lead in to some being in this hell hole called America. The first image is of Abu Bakar Ibn Umar who founded the Almoravid dynasty of Morocco around 1056. The painting was done in the 15th century & it comes from the 1413 chart of Mecia de Viladestes. The 2nd pic is a drawing of King Tenkamenin/Tunkamanin of the Great Empire of Ghana. He was of the Soninke people. Considering that the Soninke to this day assert that they migrated out of Aswan, that name Tenkamenin isn't surprising. Abu Bakar is said to have first sacked Wagadou around 1076 ( some scholars say that there was no conflict, what is known is that by the 1100s Ghana had fully converted to Islam). During the time of the supposed conflict, Tenkamenin ruled Wagadou, he came behind Ghana Bassi. Abu Bakar was killed by an archer in 1087. Mauritanian sources say that a partially blind archer who was a Gangara chieftain shot the arrow. The Wolof say that a man of the Serer people named Amar Godomat killed Abu Bakar. Whatever the case Abu Bakar left a pregnant Fula wife, Fâtimata Sal, who gave birth to a son, the legendary Amadou Boubakar ibn Omar, better known as Ndiadiane Ndiaye, who went on to found the Wolof kingdom of Waalo in the lower Senegal river. Waalo lasted from the 1280s to 1855. Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur of the Almohad dynasty came along around 1184, he was successful in repelling the tide of Christian Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula. He never lost a battle during his 15 yr reign. He also was a caliph to Morocco & Muslim Spain. When you look at the ethnic groups involved it looks like fights that were a continuation of skirmishes that happened in the Nile Valley centuries before. Soninke/Serer/Wolof of the Nile valley--Almoravids/Almohad of West Asians & Africans. More on the principle players later and the people captured in the TAST. https://www.instagram.com/p/B3U-LGQB__p/?igshid=j4mp3jbpe0lw
