Western education regularly overlooks these monarchs, but theGrio never will. Meet the African kings who deserve recognition. If you leave the telling of your story to others, you’ll miss the truth.

Once one of the great centers of Islamic culture and wealth, Mali (which is among the continent's most ancient states outside of North Africa) owes much of its reputation to both its position as a ...

A bronze ornament of undocumented history and uncertain provenance in the Barbier-Mueller Museum (acquired in 1985), Garrard believes, can be reasonably assigned to the Jenne culture. He describes the ...

In the early 1400s, the legacy of the great Mali Empire was still strong. Mali had reached its zenith under Mansa Musa (r. ca. 1312–1337), whose fabled pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 revealed the ...

Sculptors from the extraordinarily wealthy ancient Mali Empire — once the source of nearly half the world's gold — at times coated their works of art with blood, scientists confirmed for the first ...

(MENAFN) The Empire of Mali, one of the wealthiest and most influential in African history, is best known for its famous ruler, Mansa Musa, often regarded as the richest person in history. However, ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming history's richest person. His pilgrimage to Mecca, though extravagant, caused ...

Many people claim that Mansa Musa, the emperor of the Mali Empire in the fourteenth century, was the wealthiest individual in history. For centuries, the public and historians have been fascinated by ...

There was a time this was not so and the continent had some ancient kingdoms that not only thrived, they left a legacy for historians and students to marvel at. Benin Bronzes (Kingdom of Benin at the ...

A forgotten ruler of Africa was worth £400 billion and almost crashed the Egyptian economy through his gift-giving. Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire. His reign in the 14th century is ...

If you leave the telling of your story to others, you’ll miss the truth. For example, there were many more African kings than Shaka Zulu, the South African warring monarch a white film director ...