In a residential neighborhood in Mali's capital, a parade of giant marionettes marched through the streets as motorcycles and ...

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

"This book introduces the medieval empire of Mali...and soon narrows its focus to the compelling life story of the emperor Mansa Musa, who rules Mali in the early 1300s...This enjoyable work smoothly ...

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 ...