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Djenné is one of the oldest towns in sub-Saharan Africa and served as a market center and an important link in the trans-Saharan gold trade.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

Without effective administration from the center, Songhai weakened, and external groups began eyeing an opportunity to intervene and seize control of the lucrative trans-Saharan trade in salt and gold.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Progressively, they diverted traffic away from the centuries-old trans-Saharan trade routes and along the West African coast.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

These efforts gave the Portuguese an opportunity to develop a clearer sense of the scope of trans-Saharan trade, including interactions with the Wolof, who sold enslaved people along the interior trade routes in West Africa.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

At Ouargla it rested for a week; and there, renewing its supplies, penetrated southwards to survey the desert country of the Touaregs for the construction of the oft-mooted trans-Saharan railway.

From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)