Mansa Musa I : Kankan Moussa, from Niani to Mecca : a historical narrative /

"This is a very important and remarkable book. It recounts vividly, in an intense and almost cinematic manner, an unique story of which only some elements are known with certainty. From 1312 to 1337, a young African ruler, the King of Mali ruled over a massive territory, stretching across two t...

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Main Author: Roy, Jean-Louis, 1941- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakville, Ontario, Canada : Mosaic Press, 2019
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