The Historical Facts of Modern Ghana

06/03/2013 18:21

Ghana is one of the earliest known Negro empires in recorded history. It was first mentioned by an Arab geographer, Al-Fazari, in AD 773 in his book Al-Masudi, where he referred to it as "a Land of Gold". Ghana is also found on the first Islamic world map produced by a Persian geographer, Mohammed Khwarizmi, in the ninth/9'th Century. The Arab traveler Al-Bakri, writing in AD 1067, tells us that the name "Ghana" was the title of the Soninke kingdom called Aoukar. The title means "war chief". It was visiting Arabs and people from other parts of the Sudan who referred to the kingdom by the title of its kings; and by the ninth Century