Kingdom of Wajdo between legend and history

The history of the peoples of West Africa in particular is filled with dozens of legends, stories, and epics that saved African history from the claws of neglect. And in the estimation of a venerable scholar and historian like Joseph Ki Zerbo, who supervised the volumes of general history of Africa published by UNESCO, African historiography has a "mythical and social" era. But the Africans created from it a real time, even though the mythical time is linked to the social. He means that an in-depth reading of this legendary or epic product makes it a dynamic time. In this regard, the book "Kingdom of Wagadou between Myth and History" was published, containing a collection of African texts translated into Arabic by Tawhida Ali Tawfiq. The book indicates that the historian Tamsir Niane proved the mobility of an important human group like the Soninke at the regional level in West Africa. It presented the empire of Wagadou and its legend in both history and geography. His articles in this book also showed the movement of the Wagadou Empire from the far west coast of the continent, "Futa Toro," to the middle of the Sahara, including Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Niger, expressing the movement of the Soninke people across this extent.