Like Songhai kings before him, Ali was a Muslim. In the late 1460s, he conquered many of the Songhai's neighboring states, including what remained of the Mali Empire. Sonni Ali was considered the empire's most formidable military strategist and conqueror
In this case you would be using a "straight ticket", since you automatically are choosing all of the candidates within a certain political party, instead of voting for individual candidates from different parties.
