west-african-history

Mansa Musa was the tenth Mansa of the Mali Empire, renowned for his immense wealth and his historic pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324.

A powerful West African empire that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th centuries from its capital of Gao.

A historic city in northern Mali renowned as a major center of Islamic learning, trade, and culture during the medieval and early modern periods.