With a net worth of Rs $335B, Elon Musk is the richest person according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. This net worth, ...

Follow the legendary journey of Mansa Musa, the richest man in history, as he embarked on a pilgrimage to Mecca that stunned the medieval world with its wealth, scale, and impact. This historical deep ...

Discover the African countries with the shortest average heights and explore the fascinating factors behind these statistics, ...

Friday ChallengeQuestions1 Which mineral is KwaZulu-Natal rich in?2 Which is larger: Durban or Cape Town?3 Name the largest ...

Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died. Explore his legacy as a revolutionary writer who rejected English for African ...

Mansa Musa, the emperor of the Mali Empire ... Gold and salt trade made Musa unimaginably rich with some modern estimates placing his fortune at over $400 billion in today’s terms.

Interestingly, Mali was once one of Africa’s richest nations. Its legendary king, Mansa Musa, is often regarded as the wealthiest person in history, with an estimated fortune of around USD 415 ...

Join Greg Jenner in medieval West Africa for a fun homeschool history lesson on Mansa Musa, ruler of the Mali Empire and the richest man to ever live. Hear the story of his legendary pilgrimage to ...

Mansa Musa was the ... being described as inconceivably rich by his contemporaries. He is now thought to be the richest person who ever lived. "Contemporary accounts of Musa's wealth are so ...

In this edition, historian Dr Emmanuel Ababio Ofosu-Mensah of the University of Ghana in Accra explains who Mansa Musa was and Kerry Dolan of Forbes talks to us about rich lists.

And he said ‘no,’” she says. She also has a soft spot for Mansa Musa, reckoned to have been the richest individual to have ever lived and worth an estimated $430bn in today’s terms. At a time when ...