Where in the World are the Songhai People?
The greatest majority of Songhai People make their home along the Niger River, from Timbuktu, Mali to Niamey, Niger. As the river makes its big bend southward, Songhai homelands also reach into Burkina Faso. Even though some Songhai can be found living and working in the large West African cities of Lagos, Nigeria, Lomé, Togo, Cotounou, Benin, Accra, Ghana, and Abidjan, Ivory Coast, they all identify "home" as a place along the Niger River, where extended family still lives and works lands past down from generation to generation.
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World Map (pdf document)
African Continent Map (pdf document)
West Africa Map (pdf document)
Songhai Homelands Maps (pdf document)
Ministry Map (pdf document)
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