Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is the wealthiest man in ...

He was also called Kankan Musa. He ruled from 1312 to 1337, which was for 25 years. He was the 9th king and was preceded by Muhammad Ibn Qu. During the reign of Mansa Musa in Mali, Mali was one of the ...

Mansa Musa was not just rich he was a walking empire of gold. When he traveled to Mecca with tens of thousands of men and caravans loaded with gold he flooded Cairo’s economy and crashed the value of ...

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 ...

When thinking about the wealthiest people to ever walk the earth, names like Jeff Bezos or John D. Rockefeller usually spring to mind. However, historians generally agree that a 14th-century West ...

Cairo’s gold market recovered more than a decade later. Upon his return from Mecca, Musa brought Arab scholars, government bureaucrats and architects. Among those who returned with him was the ...

In the first quarter of the fourteenth century, the king of Mali indulged in a little lavish spending on a very special occasion. A misadventure had brought Mansa Musa to the throne of Mali (a ...