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Mansa Musa

c. 1280–c. 1337

Mali Empire

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Biography

Mansa Musa ruled a prosperous West African empire and supported scholarship, architecture and trade centered on cities such as Timbuktu.

1583–1663

c. 1217–c. 1255

c. 1443–1538