For a long time Bill Gates was considered the richest man in the world. Most recently, Jeff Bezos, the tycoon who owns Amazon ...

Mansa Musa was "richer than anyone could describe", Jacob Davidson wrote about the African king for Money.com in 2015. In 2012, US website Celebrity Net Worth estimated his wealth at $400bn ...

Mansa Musa was "richer than anyone could describe", Jacob Davidson wrote about the African king for Money.com in 2015. In 2012, US website Celebrity Net Worth estimated his wealth at $400bn ...

As an adjusted value, Mansa Musa's net worth would be approximately US $ 400 billion today. A pilgrimage to Mecca brought him worldwide fame in 1324 because of his wealth. Does Musa remain the richest ...

How did Mansa Musa accumulate so much wealth in his life? During Musa's time, West Africa was abundant with gold and salt as well as cultural centers such as Timbuktu, which he used as a means of ...

The king took his entire court and officials ... raids against the empire starting in the 15th century. Mansa Musa, and his opulent African empire, ended up confined only to annals of history.

African King Musa Keita I is thought to be the richest person of all time - "richer than anyone could describe," reports Time. Literally. His fortune was incomprehensible, Time's Jacob Davidson ...

North Africa. Battuta travelled throughout the known Islamic world. In the 1350s, he travelled through Mali to Timbuktu where he heard stories of Mansa Musa, which he wrote down. Similarly ...

At some stage in his early 20s he became king. The eighth Mansa ... and that is how Musa came to be so rich – via salt and gold, mainly. West Africa has always had lots of gold.