When King Mansa Musa’s golden procession arrive in Cairo, his vast benevolence upset Cairo’s economy for years to come.
It was gold and glittering Mali that had caught the European imagination. And in 1375, when map-makers in Spain produced a series of charts, known as the Catalan Atlas, Mansa Musa was shown sitting at the centre of Mali.
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