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.

Mansa Musa was the ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 14th century—and he was no backwater baron. Thanks to salt, gold, ...

King Mansa Musa wasn’t just the 1% of the 14th century — he may be the richest person of all time. As the obscure ruler of West Africa’s Mali Empire, Musa amassed a jaw-dropping $400 billion during ...

When we think about the richest person in history, names like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg or Bernard Arnault often ...

The hotel hostage crisis in Mali took place 2,600 miles from Paris but the former French colony has already been targeted by terrorists angry at France for its campaigns against Islamic militant ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century king of the Mali Empire, is often regarded as the richest person in history. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn), he is the wealthiest man in modern history. Mansa ...

NEW YORK — In 1324, Mansa Musa, the emperor of Mali, made a pilgrimage to Mecca, where his wealth and largesse became legendary. On his journey, he impressed Islamic scholars with his intellect and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Late in the afternoon of April 20, 1828, "just as the sun was touching the horizon," as he later described it, a young Frenchman, barely 29, walked into Timbuktu disguised as an Arab, wearing long ...