sankore

Updated: February 16, 2026

It was a six months' journey across the empire and, it is said, "he was obeyed with as much docility on the farthest limits of the empire as he was in his own palace, and there reigned everywhere great plenty and absolute peace." The University of Sankore became a center of learning in correspondence with Egypt and North Africa and had a swarm of black Sudanese students.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - The Negro