c. 8th centuryEvent
Foundation of the Kanem state near Lake Chad
According to the Kanem origin tradition, Saharan migrants known as the Zaghawa united the peoples of the Lake Chad region under the emerging Kanem state sometime in the eighth…
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c. 8th century
Foundation of the Kanem state near Lake Chad
According to the Kanem origin tradition, Saharan migrants known as the Zaghawa united the peoples of the Lake Chad region under the emerging Kanem state sometime in the eighth…
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According to the Kanem origin tradition, Saharan migrants known as the Zaghawa united the peoples of the Lake Chad region under the emerging Kanem state sometime in the eighth century CE. Kanem developed wealth from agriculture and its position on a trans-Saharan trade route, ruled by the mai of the Saifawa dynasty.