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, 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 ...

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 ...

Money makes the world go round, as the saying goes. Throughout history, certain individuals have amassed fortunes so vast ...

"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 ...

He wasn’t meant to make it this far; every stage of his journey was designed to break him. Instead, it built him into someone the world can no longer overlook. Lifestyle 2025-10-25T12:17:54+00:00 ...

Storytelling has always been at the heart of African culture . Long before written records, African communities relied on ...

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 ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Nov. 13, 2022. Described as a cross between a harp, a lute, and a guitar, the kora is part of a musical tradition that dates back to the ...

There’s always talk about who the richest man is, with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk constantly being at the front of the conversation, but did you know that the richest man in history was an African ...