Learn About African History

Explore the rich and diverse history of Africa — Great Zimbabwe, the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa, the Swahili Coast, the impact of colonialism, and the continent's path to independence.

Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire, who ruled from 1312 to 1337, is considered the wealthiest person in history — his 1324 pilgrimage to Mecca with 60,000 attendants and 12,000 slaves carrying gold bars was so lavish that his spending in Cairo caused a decade-long gold inflation crisis. The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 divided Africa among European colonial powers with no African representation, drawing borders that ignored ethnic and linguistic boundaries and creating lasting political instability. Timbuktu's Sankore University, established in the 14th century, housed one of the world's great libraries with an estimated 400,000-700,000 manuscripts covering astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and law, challenging the Eurocentric narrative that Sub-Saharan Africa lacked literate intellectual traditions.

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