Season 6 Episode 13: The Stone City of Songo Mnara
History of Africa

Season 6 Episode 13: The Stone City of Songo Mnara

B2Upper-intermediateApril 7, 202519 min
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Urban sprawl and social instability leads Kilwa to develop a sister city on a nearby peninsula. Songo Mnara grows rapidly to become a major urban center on the Eastern Coast of Africa.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to the history of Africa podcast, I'm your host, Andy. In our last episode, we examined Qilwaz rise to its ultimate height, before changing global economic tides brought powerful city crashing down. While Qilwaz remained an important city, the global economic crisis of the 14th century,

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caused by global temperature declines, the end of the Pax-Mongolica in Asia, and the devastating rise of the Black Death ultimately ended up with the city-state losing much of its economic status. Today Kieloa begins the long road of recovery as the state attempts to reassert itself in

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the aftermath of the crisis-laden-14th century. Season 6, Episode 13, the Stone City of Songong-Nara. As we explored in the last episode, even before the economic slowdown that came with the global outbreak of the Black Death, even but to does account of Kielba gave us some hints of an economic

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