Mansa Musa
Hi there, and welcome to 8 minute lives.If you wanted to make the whole world stop and notice your wealth, you could do worse than to cross the Sahara with thousands of people, hundreds of camels, and enough gold to shake the prices of a city. That is the story most people know about Mansa Musa, the ruler of the Mali Empire in the 14th century. In the popular imagination, he is the richest man who ever lived.But the gold caravan is only the flashiest part of his life. What makes Mansa Musa interesting is not just that he had wealth, but that he ruled at a moment when West Africa was one of…
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