In 1324, the emperor of the wealthiest kingdom on Earth set out across the Sahara on a pilgrimage that would collapse economies and place West Africa at the center of the medieval world. This is the ...

He was also called Kankan Musa. He ruled from 1312 to 1337, which was for 25 years. He was the 9th king and was preceded by Muhammad Ibn Qu. During the reign of Mansa Musa in Mali, Mali was one of the ...

To find out who the richest person in the world was to have ever lived, you have to go to the 14th century. His wealth was greater than that of Bill Gates, creator of Microsoft, or Jeff Bezos, founder ...

A synthesis of the life and times of Mansa Kankan Musa, which introduces the readers to the facinating history of the medieval Western Sudan.