tekrou

Updated: June 6, 2025

Gold, skins, ivory, kola nuts, gums, honey, wheat, and cotton were exported, and the whole Mediterranean coast traded in the Sudan. Other and lesser black kingdoms like Tekrou, Silla, and Masina surrounded Ghana. In the early part of the thirteenth century the prestige of Ghana began to fall before the rising Mandingan kingdom to the west.

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