Gold Beyond the Sahara

Mansa Musa ruled one of medieval Africa's most influential empires, a state whose wealth, political institutions, and commercial connections linked West Africa with the wider world.

Gold Beyond the Sahara explores the rise of the Mali Empire, the gold and salt trade, the famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324–1325, and the development of trans-Saharan commercial and cultural networks. It examines the r...