Well, heer goes, my newest historical obsession.
Recently I was looking in the library and came upon this:


These cavaliers of the Bornu tribe were renoqned for their skill in battle, and used as literally knights for the Mali and Songhay empires. The two present were one of the largest and wealthiest nations on the planet during their time. They flourished under the trans saharan trade in which salt and other goods from the north were traded for gold in the great trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Three great Islamic (except for Ghana) empires arose from this trade route that had been present since the dawn of Rome: Ghana, Mali and Songhay. Since this mod goes from 1450-1700, I propose that we do the Mali, Songhay and Kanem-Bornu kingdoms, and feature many trading cities such as Benin for Europeans to try their luck at .

Anyways: Here are some maps of the three empires.
Mali and empire founded in the 1300's and then replaced by the songhai in the 1500's:

songhay (replaces Mali and eventually falls to a Morroccan rule in the 1600's:

Kanem-Bornu (Working on the map sorry)

Here are some more units:










Ill post more