The Empire That Rode on Thunder

from The State of Africa · host Bolu Mayode

The Oyo Empire was proof that African civilizations were not primitive. They were complex, political, and organized.But it also reminds us that empires don’t die because of outside enemies alone, they collapse when the inside stops holding together.

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