The correct answer is A) true.
It is true that the Songhai is an ancient empire of western Africa found in present-day Mali.
it was an important Western African Empire that inhabited the territories along the N*ger River. Gao was the capital of the Empire, in what today is Mali. The empíre started in 1464 and ended in 1591. Sunni Ali was the first ruler of the Songhai Empire. He was a great warrior and conqueror that expanded the Empires' territory to Djenne and Timbuktu. But it was ruler Askia Muhammed who took the empire to its better years.