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Mansa Musa's Lost Mason: The Artisans Who Built Mali
In Episode 177, Lucas and Luna explore the unsung craftspeople behind Mansa Musa's architectural legacy — not the famous Andalusian poet-architect Abu Ishaq al-Sahili, but the local Mande masons who actually shaped the mudbrick masterpieces of Timbuktu, Djenné, and Niani. Drawing on the Tarikh al-Sudan, al-Umari's Masalik al-Absar, and archaeological evidence, they uncover how these anonymous builders adapted Saharan and Sahelian techniques — using banco, palm wood, and thatch — to create structures that still stand today. Learn about the mason guilds (jeliw) who passed knowledge…
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