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Mansa Musa's Camel Corps The Desert Cavalry of Mali
Long before the hajj that broke Cairo's economy, Mansa Musa built a weapon no neighboring kingdom could match: a camel-mounted strike force that could cross the Sahara faster than any army. This episode follows the rise of Mali's camel corps—the kabila—and the enslaved Berber cavalrymen who rode them. We explore how Mansa Musa used these desert riders to enforce his salt monopoly at Taghaza, crush the Tuareg rebellion of 1325, and project power from the Niger bend to the Atlas Mountains. Drawing on accounts from al-Umari's Masalik al-Absar, Ibn Battuta's travels, and the…
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