Timbuktu.
Timbuktu, Mali, and Mali
Timbuktu was important to Songai for it's location between the salt mines in Northern Africa, and Gold Fields in the south.
Timbuktu is in Mali in western Africa.
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Timbuktu.
Timbuktu
by the 1400s, Timbuktu had become a leading center of learning. The city drew some of the best scholars from all over the Muslim world. In his book, history and description of Africa, Leo Africanus described the intellectual life of the city
The city of Timbuktu in the Songhai Empire became an important trading city and a center of intellectual influence. It was known for its thriving trade in gold, salt, and other goods, as well as its prestigious Islamic learning centers and libraries.
currently not really current day timbuktu is just a town in the north african state of mali. however in historical times timbuktu was an important town in the transaharan trade and acted as an important market town with several trade routes coverging around the town.
Timbuktu.
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well Timbuktu was so famous because of their salt that was the most famous food that they owned the had more salt because the trade it in for their country's wealth, gold!
Sundiata, the great chief of the Malinke and the king of the Mali Empire, made Timbuktu an important center for Islamic Culture
While there was no official "capital" (because of the multiple empires that come and go), one of (if not the) most important trade city in West Africa was Timbuktu.