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Beyond monument lies empirearticle 2005 • Van Dyke, Kristina
Songhai • Africa > Western Africa
This article examines Songhai history through the properties of a spiritualized landscape and an embodied architecture. Ancestral shrines were nodes of spiritual power, as was Mecca; pilgrims returning from Mecca had to kiss their chief upon their re...