According to Malian officials, skyrocketing prices for West African art and artifacts ... ruler of the Mali Empire. I found her seated on the concrete floor of an adobe-and-stucco guesthouse ...

Beginning, in Part One, with Mali's precursors, Gao and the Kingdom of Ghana ... Note: African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa is also available in paper back and e ...

Narrator: From the medieval ages, West Africa was home to a range of powerful ... The 13th century saw the rise of Mansas and the Empire of Mali. The Mansas brought huge wealth and established ...

The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

Conrad's "Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay ... Mansa Musa expanded the borders of his empire tremendously. He annexed the city of Timbuktu and reestablished power ...

In fact, the surnames Bagayoko and Doumbia are both from the ancient lineage (called Boula) of blacksmiths that date back to the time of the emperor Sunjata Keita, who founded the Mali empire in 1235.