Labels:text | diagram | map OCR: SPANISH SAHARA ALGERIA MAURITANIA THE CAMBIA UPPER VOLTA GUINEA-BISSAU DAHOMEY ( NIGERIA, SIERRA LECINE IVORY COAST GHANA TOGO Ghano, co. A.D. 1000 LIBERIA Moli, co. A.D. 1350 Songhai, co. A.D. 1520 CAMEROON Nofe-Early empires are superimposed to show their localion with respect to national boundaries in 1974. Source: Adapted from Roland Oliver and J. D. Fage, A Short History of Africa, Baltimore, 1962, p. 87. Figure 2. Early West African Empires