They were both native to what is currently Mali. The Songhai could reaonably be called a successor empire to the Malinese. The Songhai had a single state language, (Gao) unlike the Malinese, and obtained greater power and wealth than the Malinese, but culturally there were a lot of similarities.
I would recommend it because it would be good for you. I don't know you but it would be good for anyone who is willing to take it.
The creation of distinctive classes in the North drove striking new cultural developments. Even among the wealthy elites, northern business families, who had mainly inherited their money, distanced themselves from the newly wealthy manufacturing leaders. Regardless of how they had earned their money, however, the elite lived and socialized apart from members of the growing middle class. The middle class valued work, consumption, and education and dedicated their energies to maintaining or advancing their social status. Wage workers formed their own society in industrial cities and mill villages, though lack of money and long working hours effectively prevented the working class from consuming the fruits of their labor, educating their children, or advancing up the economic ladder.
A. They share the same vision
So that they could read the bible and also about the religion of Christianity
