When Marvel announced in 2014 that they would begin production on a Black Panthermovie, the news was met with the same kind of hype as an Air Jordan release. Not only would black people get a taste of ...

Timbuktu was clearly the centre of Islamic sub-Saharan Africa.Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca brought Mali to the attention of Europe. For the next two centuries, Italian, German and Spanish cartographers ...

King Mansa Musa, the richest Black man in history, lived from 1280 – 1337 A.D., and ruled over the Mali Empire. Today, his net worth is estimated to have been $400 billion. His kingdom included Ghana, ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th century Mali king, has nothing on Jeff Bezos - read one recent news report. Musa set off on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia in the 1300s and it’s said he left with a caravan of ...

Mansa Musa travelled to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this ...

Mansa Musa was emperor of the West African Mali Empire. Covering roughly 500,000 square miles of land, it was the biggest empire West Africa has ever known. 2. Mansa Musa is still the richest man who ...

Money, money, money–do you every get to aspirational daydreaming about being King Midas? Only to realize that King Midas never lived? Today, we took at look at some real-life King Midas’ below! It ...

Seven hundred years ago, that list would’ve been topped by King Mansa Musa, the richest black man in history. Musa lived from 1280 – 1337 A.D., and ruled over the Mali Empire. Today, his net worth is ...

African King Musa Keita I is thought to be the richest person of all time — "richer than anyone could describe," reports Time. Literally. His fortune was incomprehensible, Time's Jacob Davidson writes ...