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Songhai
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Song·hai also Song·hay  (sôngh, sng-g)
An ancient empire of western Africa in present-day Mali. It was founded c. 700 by Berbers and reached the height of its power around 1500.
Songhai [sɒŋˈgaɪ]
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1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -ghai, -ghais a member of a Nilotic people of W Africa, living chiefly in Mali and Niger in the central Niger valley
2. (Linguistics / Languages) the language or group of dialects spoken by this people, now generally regarded as forming a branch of the Nilo-Saharan family
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Noun1.Songhai - a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Songhai in Mali and Niger
Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language - a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania
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This, of course, reminds us that Stoller himself is an anthropologist who lived as a Peace Corps in Niger, in the same locales visited by Lyons (some of the people portrayed here are adapted from his real life account of his experience in Nigers Songhay country, In Sorcerys Shadow.
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