The Alááshu fa Tozàn was ascending towards a new golden age and a golden age for Tozàn was a golden age for merchants and trade. The port cities were growing, bustling centres of that trade and every town with markets saw them flourish more than they had in the centuries before. Silk and gold from the west was brought to all corners of Tozàn, as was palm oil from the southeast, ivory, and steel from the northeast. Northern cotton was not limited to northern folk, every town's market had a place for cotton.

It would be short-sighted to think that all of that was due to Obibo efforts, because not only in Tozàn trade flourished. In the westernmost point of West Africa, in a land called Sonkifàn ruled by the Ataràmè, Tozàn merchants were protected, south of that land, in the jungles of the Gbéné they enjoyed similar privileges against exortion and banditry. The Obibo had a laissez-passer when it came to trade in the land of the Kóngò in the far south and the Oba of the Soninke people had promised to do Obibo merchants no harm.

Exotic fruits and nuts came from the south as well as cheap supplies of timber and from the north came infinite supplies of gold. To the west most art was done in craft and the work of artisanry in a land where the Obibo enjoyed exporting most of their luxurious silk not meant for the domestic market. However, the most lucrative, risky yet perhaps rewarding trade was found in reconnecting the ancient trade with the Oba-Ifà fa Sùsi. After indirect trade and sparse exchanges between Sùsi and Obibo in Nijaay, caravans between Tozàn and Sùsi would return, connecting to the existing Sùsi network. These caravans, though still protected by armed men, found little harm in the desert thanks to none other than the Oba of Wágádu, who would himself also profit immensely from this trade.

The trade routes of Tozàn in 1120 CE

Important economic activity in Tozàn in 1120 CE