Kanem–Bornu Empire

Empire around Lake Chad, Africa, c. 700–1902

The Kanem–Bornu Empire was an empire based around Lake Chad that once ruled areas which are now part of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, and Chad. The empire was sustained by the prosperous trans-Saharan trade and was one of the oldest and longest-lived empires in world history and especially in African history. The early history of the Kanem–Bornu Empire is poorly known.

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