This week Alisha and Will are making it rain! We're talking an entourage of thousands, camels, horses, and enough gold to collapse an entire country's economy. Oh whoops, that's not Alisha and Will, that's Mansa Musa the 14th century ruler of the Mali Empire, one of the wealthiest empires the world has ever known. Because apparently being a king will make you crazy rich, but podcasting won't. Who knew...?

Articles:

The Mali Empire (Resource Library Entry, National Geographic)

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/mali-empire/

Forbes’ World’s Billionaires List: The Richest People in 2021 (Edited by Kerry A. Dolan

And Jennifer Wang and Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes Magazine, 2021)

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Mansa Musa (Musa I of Mali) (National Geographic Society, Apr 2021)

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/mansa-musa-musa-i-mali/

Is Mansa Musa the richest man who ever lived? (Naima Mohamud, BBC News, Mar 2019)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458

Four People Who Single-handedly Caused Economic Crises (Alex Silady, smartasset.com, Jun 2018)

https://smartasset.com/insights/four-people-who-singlehandedly-caused-economic-crises

Mansa Musa (1280-1337) (Julianna Tesfu, blackpast.org, Jun 2008)

https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/musa-mansa-1280-1337/

Videos:

Mansa Musa: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived • Puppet History (Watcher, Sep 2021)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcfitxiEJU8&ab_channel=Watcher

Audio:

Mansa Musa (Historical Figures, Nov 2019)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1aRs3tWwR4hpnRyEDyUxFa?si=c7824470b11e4b50

Mansa Musa (You’re Dead to Me, Sep 2019)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hSEn4l0O4AO92tZftTeQv?si=sEYdXANjQe-k3LtO8MqPTQ&dl_branch=1