Borno Museum Society Newsletter nos.
72/73 & 74/75, 2008
84
Immigration of the Chadic-speaking Sao towards 600 BCE
Dierk Lange
Introduction: The Sao and the history of Kanem-Borno
In recent years the region of Lake Chad has benefited from...
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Borno Museum Society Newsletter nos.
72/73 & 74/75, 2008
84
Immigration of the Chadic-speaking Sao towards 600 BCE
Dierk Lange
Introduction: The Sao and the history of Kanem-Borno
In recent years the region of Lake Chad has benefited from considerable
advances in archaeological research.
Several teams undertook excavations in
the centre and the western border of the firki floodplains south of Lake Chad.
New facts and new dates concerning the material culture of the inhabitants of
the firki lands came to light.
Historical research did not keep pace with these
enormous advances.
The old questions asked since the rise of African history
as an academic discipline remained more or less unanswered.
They concern
the emergence of the Kanuri people, the rise of the Kanem empire, the
expansion of Kanem towards the west, the emergence of Borno and, most
important of all, the origin, the scope and the collapse of the civilisation of the
Sao.
1 In fact, the Sao became mo
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