What was the wealth and power of africas kingdoms based on??

Question

What was the wealth and power of africas kingdoms based on??

Answer 1

Slavery, precious metals, and gems.

Answer 2

Controlling markets meant control over resources and people who utilized them. Larger states developed around market centers, notably the kingdoms of the western Sudan (Ghana, Ife, Benin, Mali and Songhai) that exploited the wealth of the trans-Saharan trade and the kingdoms of south central Africa (Great Zimbabwe) and those along the eastern African coast (Kilwa, Malindi, Mombassa, Bunyoro, and Buganda) that controlled trade within the Indian Ocean region.