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Mansa Musa's Lost Diplomatic Marriage to the Marinid Sultan
In 1337, Mansa Musa sent his daughter to marry the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Abdallah, but the wedding never happened. This episode explores the high-stakes diplomacy between the Mali Empire and Morocco, the role of the dyula merchant network in carrying messages across the Sahara, and the political calculations that led to a broken betrothal. What did each side hope to gain, and why did it fall apart? Drawing on al-Umari's Masalik al-Absar and Ibn Khaldun's chronicles, we reconstruct this lost alliance and its implications for West African and North African history…
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