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Tarikh al-Sudan
1655Abd al-Rahman al-Sa'di
A seventeenth-century Timbuktu chronicle recounting the history of Mali, Songhay, Islamic scholarship, political succession, and urban life in the Niger bend.
West AfricaPre-colonial
Tarikh al-Fattash
1665Mahmud Kati and later compilers
A Sahelian chronicle associated with Timbuktu's scholarly families, preserving histories of Mali, Songhay, clerical lineages, and political authority.
West AfricaPre-colonial
The Chronicle of Kilwa
1520Swahili coastal chronicle tradition
Chronicle traditions concerning the rulers, trade networks, Islamization, and maritime power of Kilwa on the Swahili coast.
East AfricaPre-colonial