Western education regularly overlooks these monarchs, but theGrio never will. Meet the African kings who deserve recognition. If you leave the telling of your story to others, you’ll miss the truth.

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 ...

A bronze ornament of undocumented history and uncertain provenance in the Barbier-Mueller Museum (acquired in 1985), Garrard believes, can be reasonably assigned to the Jenne culture. He describes the ...

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In the early 1400s, the legacy of the great Mali Empire was still strong. Mali had reached its zenith under Mansa Musa (r. ca. 1312–1337), whose fabled pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 revealed the ...

West African storytellers still sing the praises of Sunjata Keita today. Crippled as a child, he overcame his disability to unify the fragmented kingdoms of the region, creating the vast medieval Mali ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming history's richest person. His pilgrimage to Mecca, though extravagant, caused ...

There was a time this was not so and the continent had some ancient kingdoms that not only thrived, they left a legacy for historians and students to marvel at. There was a time this was not so and ...

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While today’s billionaires are breaking records, none have ever compared to the unimaginable wealth of Mansa Musa, a 14th-century king of the Mali Empire. He is known by most historians as “the ...

If you leave the telling of your story to others, you’ll miss the truth. For example, there were many more African kings than Shaka Zulu, the South African warring monarch a white film director ...