In the 14th century, Mansa Musa’s Mali Empire and Ibn Battuta’s epic travels revealed a deeply interconnected world. Musa’s gold-fueled pilgrimage to Mecca reshaped economies and cultural ties, while ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that the wealthiest man that ever lived was not Jeff Bezos or Mukesh Ambani, but a medieval African king? His name was Mansa Musa, and he ruled the Mali Empire in the 14th century. He was ...

The list of wealthiest people are often names that we come across daily but if we dig deeper into world history there are people who have walked the earth’s surface with unimaginable wealth that ...