The Mali Empire was one of the world’s major producers of gold, ... They followed a traditional African religion known as Edo, which many people in Nigeria still practise today.

Mansa Musa’s Rise to Power. In 1307, Mansa Musa, who was predicted to be the grandson or grandnephew of Sundiata, the empire’s founder, took the throne of the Mali Empire, which prospered ...

Mali became an independent nation in 1960, with Modibo Keïta as its first president, who ran a one-party Socialist government. At its height during the 1920s and 1930s, France’s global empire ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Empire of Mali which flourished from 1200 to 1600 and was famous in the wider world for the wealth of rulers such as Mansa Musa. Mali was the largest empire in ...

c.1226-1670 - Mali Empire becomes dominant force in the upper Niger basin following the Battle of Krina in 1234. c. 1464-1591 - as the Mali Empire loses some of its power, ...