The Black Jewish Empire of Ghana: The ancient Black empire of Ghana was established in the western Sudan. During the colonial period, the western Sudan was called French West Africa. The northern boundary of this region is the Sahara Desert, the western and southern border is Lake Chad. In ancient times, the Carthaginiants from north Africa penetrated the Sahara Desert and the western Sudan during the second and third centuries B.C. When north and eastern Africa had amassed over a million Jews, these Jews began a continuous migration to the region of the Niger River. According to the researches of Nahum Slouschz, The tradition of the Jewish traders in the Sahara stretches back to biblical times. Slouschz continues, And it is not at all surprising to encounter in every part of the desert traces and even survivals of a primitive Judaism which at one time played an important role in the whole region of the Sahara from Senegal to the very borders of Somaliland. As I have mentioned earlier, this region that extends across the entire width of Africa, below the Sahara Desert from Senegal to Somaliland, is known as the Sudan or Black Africa. Between the second and the third centuries, the Black Jews of Arabia continued migrating across the Red Sea to Ethiopia. The largest exodus of the Jews occurred during the persecution by the Arabs led by Mohammed. He had said on his dying bed that he wanted Islam to be supreme throughout all Arabia. From the book entitled, From Babylon to Timbuktu. By Rudolph R. Windsor pp. 87-88. (1973)
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