The Mali Empire was one of the world’s major producers of gold, and at the time, many of the coins used in southern Europe could be traced back to West Africa. Through the expansion of their ...

Malian guitarist, singer and composer of the famed duo Amadou & Mariam - known as "the blind couple of Mali" - passed away on 4 April in Bamako. He was 70.

He can be credited with the spread of Islam throughout West Africa, as the Mali Empire became a hub for Islamic learning. Mansa Musa presided over a golden age of African development and prosperity.

A system of control and taxes on trade provided stability to the Mali Empire by generating wealth. Trading gold and salt have proved to be the most profitable. During Musa's time, West Africa was ...

At the time, the Mali empire extended through 2,000 miles of West Africa, from what today is Niger in the east, through parts of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Sierra Leone and ...

What made Mansa Musa so absurdly wealthy? Through being a trade hub connecting the interior and southern coasts of West Africa with North Africa across the Sahara desert's caravan routes, the Mali ...

Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region—notably Mali ... West Africa has been a renowned gold mining hub ...

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 ...