Oral history, recited by Malian djeli (or oral ... In the east, Gao began its ascendancy while remaining part of the Mali Empire. In the early 1400's, Tuareg launched a number of successful ...

Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire, is widely regarded as the richest man in history. He was exceptionally wealthy to an extent that historians have struggled to quantify it accurately. Though the ...

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 ...

Ghana was the title of the kings who ruled the kingdom. It was controlled by Sundiata in 1240 AD, and absorbed into the larger Mali Empire. (Mali Empire reached its peak of success under Mansa ...

The Mali Empire was the center of the world’s gold ... can be regarded as one of the most significant events of African history. It had monumental impacts on Africa’s future.