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Mansa Musa's Successor: The Brief Reign of Maghan I
After Mansa Musa's death in 1337, his son Maghan I inherited the wealthiest empire in West Africa—and lost it within four years. This episode unpacks Maghan's short, troubled rule: the Mossi cavalry raids that sacked Timbuktu and Gao, his failure to respond, and the quiet coup that brought his uncle Suleyman to power. We draw on the Tarikh al-Sudan and Ibn Battuta's eyewitness account of the Malian court under Suleyman to trace how a single succession crisis began Mali's slow decline. Along the way, we explore the Mossi kingdom's military tactics, the role of the…
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