Sunni Ali (died 1492) founded the Songhay empire of West Africa. Best known as a great military leader, he was called Ali Ber, or "Ali the Great." There is much controversy about his attitudes toward Islam. Almost nothing is known about the early life...

(died 1492) West African monarch who initiated the imperial expansion of the Songhai empire. His first major conquest (1468) was the city of Timbuktu, one of the chief anchors of the declining Mali empire. A seven-year siege of the city of Jenné...

Sonni Ali, also known as Sonni Ali Ber or Sunni Ali Ber or "Sunni Ali", who reigned from about 1464 to 1492, was the first great king of the Songhai Empire, located on the continent of Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty. Under Sonni Ali's...

35 538 Ali Ali USA 2001 Produktion: Columbia/ forward Pass/ Initial Entertainment/ Moonlighting/ Ororbrook/ Peters Entertainment/ Picture Entertainment. Priduzenten: Paul Ardaji, A Kitman Ho, James Lassiter, Michael Mann, Jon Peters, Michael Waxman Regie: Michael Mann Buch: Stephen...

FORGET the minor carps. Let's overlook the inflexibility of his personnel (trombonist Clifton Anderson is a permanent fixture and Fender-bassist Bob Cranshaw seems eternal) and celebrate the fact that at 71 Sonny Rollins remains a jazz colossus. How well he lived up to...