In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was central to several key trading routes, and with the support of a well ...

Mansa Musa was the legendary ruler of the Mali Empire, thought by many to be the richest person to have ever lived. The Mali Empire was the center of the world’s gold production, affording Musa ...

How did the Mali Empire make money? Ancient Mali was essentially a trade nation, particularly during the trans-Saharan trade era. A system of control and taxes on trade provided stability to the Mali ...

Can you fathom a net worth of $400 billion? That's an astronomical sum, surpassing the combined wealth of Forbes' top five billionaires. This was the reality for Mansa Musa, whose riches dwarf ...

Mansa Musa's wealth was much greater than Augustus Caesar's estimated $4.6trillion. He was the richest person in history, whose wealth was too vast to be imagined, or ever equalled. Even today’s ...

As a result of monopolizing the gold trade and developing its agricultural resources, the Mali Empire prospered. The currency of Mali, like Ghana, was the guilders’ currency. A heavy guilder’s tax was ...

But, according to the internet (and we all know the internet is never wrong) there was someone even richer: a Malian gentleman, Mansa Musa the Ninth, or King Musa IX. Don't miss the latest ...

"Mali guards its secrets jealously. There are things which the uninitiated will never know, for the griots, their depositories, will never betray them." Oral history, recited by Malian djeli (or ...

Brass-workers in the kingdom of Ife made brass figures of gods, humans and animals. In the Asante kingdom, goldsmiths made ornaments to show their king was rich. This map shows Mansa Musa with an ...

Is Jeff Bezos richer than Mansa Musa? He was a capable leader and a Muslim emperor. US$150 billion is the net worth of Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man. As an adjusted value, Mansa Musa's net worth ...