Mansa Musa's Rise: The Keita Thirty Years

Mansa Musa: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived — Fexingo History · Aug 29, 2026 · 10m · transcript

Before the hajj that shook Cairo and the gold that flooded the Mediterranean, Mansa Musa was a young general fighting his way to a throne. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the forgotten decade of Mali's expansion under Mansa Musa and his predecessor, Abu Bakr II. They dig into the military campaigns that pushed Mali's borders to the Atlantic, the administrative genius that turned war booty into a fiscal system, and the strange silence of the griots about Bamana, an obscure province that may have been Mansa Musa's first conquest. Along the way, they weigh the evidence for…