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.

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. Benin Bronzes (Kingdom of Benin at the ...

He was also called Kankan Musa. He ruled from 1312 to 1337, which was for 25 years. He was the 9th king and was preceded by Muhammad Ibn Qu. During the reign of Mansa Musa in Mali, Mali was one of 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 ...

The Ghana Empire -- The Mali Empire -- The Songhay Empire -- The Soninke people of the Ghana Empire -- The Mande people of the Mali Empire -- The XXX people of the Songhay Empire siris_sil_791357 ...

Many modern histories tend to focus on ancient kingdoms and empires around the Mediterranean and in the Fertile Crescent. But Western versions of history tend to overlook the many significant kingdoms ...

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 ...

When I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), one exhibit stopped me in my tracks. It described European traders arriving in Africa to exchange goods with ...

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 ...