Niger: Famine and Uranium
The earliest emblems of humanity’s existence in Niger can be found in cave paintings in the south near Tiquidt, Niger. These paints, tools and artifacts date back to around 280,000 BC. Around 10,000BC there is evidence of herding, farming and agricultural production. This is one the earliest beginnings of early human civilization. The first slave state civilization in the region of Western Africa begins with the Empire of Ghana. Its capital was Koumbi Saleh. This African Empire lasted from 300 CE to 1100 CE. Though it lay to the west of modern-day Niger. It exerted a profound impact on the development of the region. It was a culture based on traditional African religion that lived side by side Muslim religion that entered the empire after the Muslim invasion of the region during the 7 th century CE . This empire was developed from the tr...