Ouidah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It even has the words Judah under the name for the origin.
Ouidah/ˈwiːdə/, historically also called
Whydah/ˈhwaɪdə/,
Juda,
[2]Juida by the French
[3] and
Ajudá by the Portuguese,
[4] formally the
Kingdom of Whydah is a city on the
Atlanticcoast of the Republic of
Benin.
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Negroland and Guinea Poster
^^^ map proving Black Jews where in that area during that time period
Jews of Bilad el-Sudan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jews of Bilad el-Sudan
The Songhai Empire, c. 1500
Jews of the Bilad al-Sudan (
Judeo-Arabic: אַהַל יַהוּדּ בִּלַדּ אַל סוּדָּן) describes West African Jewish communities who were connected to known Jewish communities from the Middle East, North Africa, or Spain and Portugal. Various historical records attest to their presence at one time in the
Ghana,
Mali, and
Songhai empires, then called the
Bilad as-Sudan from the Arabic meaning
Land of the Blacks. Jews from Spain, Portugal, and
Morocco in later years also formed communities off the coast of
Senegal and on the Islands of
Cape Verde.
These communities continued to exist for hundreds of years but have since disappeared due to changing social conditions, persecution, migration, and assimilation.
