Salif Keïta battled parental disapproval and societal stigma to become the mainstay of two of his country’s most celebrated ...

Africa is a continent of stories. Long before colonial borders and modern states, there were tales—tales whispered beside ...

Founded by Sundiata Keita in the early 13th century, the Mali Empire became one of Africa’s most powerful and culturally rich civilisations. Situated in the heart of West Africa, it encompassed ...

“So there’s a Djembe class going on. The class is talking about the great Mali Empire and King Mansa Musa and Sundiata Keita,” said Breai Mason-Campbell, the founder and Executive Director of Moving ...

In 1307, Mansa Musa, who was predicted to be the grandson or grandnephew of Sundiata, the empire’s founder, took the throne of the Mali Empire, which prospered under his reign because it ...

Early on in his new book, “Custodians of Wonder,” BBC Travel writer Eliot Stein tallies some recent effects of globalization, a process that seems to only speed up. Nine languages, he notes ...

European history teaches us to associate ancient empires with the ambition of overseas exploration, and the Mali Empire was no exception. Musa, the grandson of the empire’s founder, Sundiata ...

The novel was based on a Malian epic told by the griot Babou Condé about Sundiata Keita, the 13th-century founder of the Mali Empire.

Spanning a vast territory in West Africa, the empire was a center of trade, culture, and learning, with its capital, Timbuktu, becoming a legendary city of wealth and scholarship. Sundiata Keita ...

The Liptako-Gourma Charter establishes the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Mali's junta leader Assimi Goita posted on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. Its aim is to "establish an ...