Mali was once called Ghana. The great Ghana Empire (c.800-1230) was based in western Mali. “Ghana” means “warrior king” in the language of the Soninke (the indigenous people of the Senegal ...

How did the Mali Empire grow? There is evidence that the Mali Empire originated with Sundiata, or the Lion King, as he is known. A few years after claiming the capital of the Ghana Empire, Sundiata ...

c. 300AD-1200s - Much of the region is part of the Ghana Empire, ... c.1226-1670 - Mali Empire becomes dominant force in the upper Niger basin following the Battle of Krina in 1234.

Mansa Musa, emperor of the Mali Empire, is widely regarded as the richest man in history. He was exceptionally wealthy to an extent that historians have struggled to quantify it accurately. Though ...

Some key dates in Mali's history: c. 300AD-1200s - Much of the region is part of the Ghana Empire, one of several major West African empires controlling trans-Saharan trade in gold, salt, other ...