Sonni Ali — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Sonni Ali Ber (r. c. 1464–1492), fifteenth ruler of the Sonni dynasty and founder of the Songhai Empire; he conquered Timbuktu, Djenne and the Inner Niger Delta, and the article sets out his contested religious profile — a professed Islam alongside traditional practice, and the hostility of the Muslim chroniclers — and his death in 1492.