


There are different accounts of who he was, but all reports emphasise that he was an outsider who came from afar. But some time at the beginning of the first millennium AD, it is thought that a number of clans of the Soninke people, (in modern Senegal) came together under a leader with semi-divine status, called Dinga Cisse. Nobody is sure when Ghana came into being. Ghana encompassed what is now modern Northern Senegal and Southern Mauritania. It lies about four hundred miles north west of modern Ghana. Is not geographically, ethnically, or in any other way, related to modern Despite its name, the old Empire of Ghana
