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Mansa Musa's Water Engineers: The Wells and Canals of the Sahel
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden infrastructure that made the Mali Empire thrive: its water management systems. While Mansa Musa is famous for gold and pilgrimage, his engineers built intricate wells, canals, and reservoirs across the Sahel, sustaining Niani, Timbuktu, and Djenné. Lucas reveals how the farba administered water rights, how dyula merchants relied on desert wells, and how the empire's hydraulic projects mirrored those of ancient Ghana. Drawing from al-Umari's Masalik al-Absar and the Tarikh al-Sudan, they discuss the foggara-style underground channels…
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