Mansa Musa: Gold and Knowledge
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History has a way of remembering gold and forgetting everything else. When the name Mansa
Musa is spoken, it usually arrives with a glittering list of superlatives: the richest man
who ever lived, the emperor who broke the economy of Cairo, and the leader of
a caravan so vast it distorted global markets across three continents. Gold announces itself
with noise and excess. But there is a quieter currency that moves through this story—knowledge. It passes between
teachers and students in dusty courtyards and survives in the memories of those who understand
that while gold is merely the means, knowledge was always the end. Musa was born into
gold, a prince of the Keita dynasty and heir to mines that had supplied the
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