What were the names of the three major kingdoms of the West African savanna?

Answer 1

Lesotho, Swaziland and Morocco are the only remaining monarchies in Africa, and none of them is in the region generally known as East Africa.

In the past, there have been many East African nations that have had governments analogous to constitutional or absolute monarchies, though the extent of written evidence for these varies widely.

• The best-known is Ethiopia (formerly known in English as Abyssinia), which had a continuous absolute monarchy for more than a millennium; the Ethiopian monarchy was interrupted by the Italian invasion prior to World War II, reinstated afterward and then abolished in the 1970s.
• The Kingdom of Banyarwanda (with borders almost identical to the current nation of Rwanda) also had a very well-developed absolute monarchy, and since-recorded oral tradition traces the line of Tutsi kings back to 14th Century. The monarchy was abolished in 1959 and replaced with a repressive "republic." The exact character of the Kingdom of Banyarwanda, and especially race relations between Hutus and Tutsis during the monarchic period, are the subject of a large degree of controversy.
• The coast of East Africa, for centuries starting in the 500s A.D., was dominated by the market-oriented Swahili city-states, small-scale political organizations whose economies thrived on foreign trade with China, India and the Arabian peninsula. Many of these cities, such as Mombasa and Mogadishu, still exist today.

Answer 2

Ghana, Mali, and the Songhai kingdom not Mansa Musa. Mansa Musa was a person of course

Answer 3

Gahana Benin and Mali

Answer 4

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai