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Mansa Musa's Wangara Trade Secrets: The Silent Barter System
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the silent barter trade of the Wangara, the secretive gold merchants of the Mali Empire. Operating across the Sahel from Bambuk and Bure to the Niger bend, the Wangara exchanged gold for salt from Taghaza and Takedda without ever meeting their trading partners face-to-face. Lucas explains how this system kept the sources of Mansa Musa's extraordinary wealth hidden for centuries, fooling even Arab geographers like al-Umari and Ibn Battuta. The Wangara, linked to the Soninke and Manding peoples, upheld a strict code of silence, passing trade routes…
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