In the 11th century at the court of the Kanem Mai Umme, tradersarrive with a tale of one God! and not just that they talk of thepossibilities of Brotherhood with fellow monarchs across the greatdeserts, show him their written words and offer their generalservices, he could make a profit selling them some of the surplusagricultural products from his domain and serve as a middle-man topass on products from the resource rich but disease riddenRain-forests, all this in exchange for changing his name to HummeJilmi and accepting that there was but one God and that Muhammadwas his prophet.