Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire ...

2. Sundiata Kieta, Mali Empire (Mali, parts of Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso) 1235 CE to 1255 CE Sundiata Kieta founded the Ancient Mali Empire.

There is evidence that the Mali Empire originated with Sundiata, or the Lion King, as he is known. A few years after claiming the capital of the Ghana Empire, Sundiata and his men continued to expand ...

Many of us call the black men in our lives kings as a term of endearment, respect and encouragement, but with no extensive connection or education of black royalty here in the Western world, those ...

the event is named after the legendary 13th-century King Sundiata of West Africa’s Mali Empire, who preserved his people’s culture and history by rescuing their griot (historian and storyteller).

Festival Sundiata is inspired by the legends of the great King Sundiata of Africa’s 13th-century Mali Empire who preserved his people’s culture and history by rescuing their griot (historian ...

including the “Sunjata,” a core poem of African oral literature that recounts the life of Mansa Musa’s ancestor Sundiata Keita, who founded the Mali empire. And, rather like the various ...