SAU PEOPLES OF THE LAKE CHAD BASIN

The Lake Chad Basin is one of the African lakes that played a major role in the history of the region due to its strategic location and its location on the routes of the desert trade caravans, which made it a commercial center and an artery of the economy, in addition to the fact that the region is fertile and suitable for agriculture, which attracted many human elements.The nature of the region itself in terms of its lack of natural obstacles such as forests, jungles and highlands facilitated the process of movement to and from it, and these factors helped in the settlement of many groups that practiced hunting, livestock and agriculture.The fertility of the region helped solve the economic problems of the immigrants, so they began to spread around its shores and mixed with some of the residents of that region.The regions bordering Lake Chad were centers of ancient civilizations.These civilizations were established in ancient Kanem by various peoples, and history remembers them with some admiration for the efforts they made to build the edifice of Chadian civilizations .