The Almoravid Empire. In Our Time. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Berber people who dominated the western Maghreb and the south of the Iberian Peninsula from C11th, ...

Empire of Ancient Ghana ... Other interpretations are that the Almoravid influence was gradual and did not involve any form of military takeover. In the 11th and 12th ...

But the Empire of Ghana was also under pressure from outside forces. There is an Arab tradition that the Almoravid Muslims came down from the North and invaded Ghana.