Further west was the state of Takrur in the Senegal valley. It was linked to the north via a coastal route leading to Morocco via Sjilmasa. What is clear, is that the Empire derived power and ...
The arabized Kunta, a Saharan tribe of saints and scholars, trace their pedigree back to ‘Uqba, claiming that he himself had conquered Biru (i.e. Walata) and Takrur. The fourteenth-century Ibn Abī Zar ...
The state of Takrur to the west had already adopted Islam as its official religion and established closer trading ties with North Africa. There were numerous reasons for the decline of Ghana.