A heavy guilder’s tax was imposed on everything that passed through the empire, in or out. In four centuries, Mali expanded its territory, influence, and culture thanks to a well-trained imperial army ...

Narrator: Musa became the Emperor of Mali, the Mansa ... Timbuktu became the heart of his empire, the centre of trade and culture. News of wealth and learning spread far and wide.

Yet the name of the 14th-century ruler of the Empire of Mali, a place where gold was readily ... feet with a spectacular array of ancient artifacts — and, as the title suggests, pieces of ...

11th century - Empire of Mali becomes dominant force in the upper ... historically important as a focal point of Islamic culture and a trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route.

Here's reporter Ari Daniel. ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: Kaabu emerged in the 13th century as a coastal province within the kingdom of Mali in West Africa. But when Mali fell a few hundred years later ...

“Africans knew how to write before many outside Africa did,” said Andogoly Guindo, Mali’s minister of culture. “These manuscripts can throw light on part of Africa’s past.” But ...

For centuries, its northern city of Timbuktu was a key regional trading post and centre of Islamic culture ... 1226-1670 - Mali Empire becomes dominant force in the upper Niger basin following ...