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 ...

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Does Musa remain the richest person of all time? Among the wealthiest people who have ever lived was African King Mansa Musa I, whose net worth was $400 billion and was born in the late 13th century.

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 ...

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.

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Known as the Voyager King, he personally led thousands of ... texts and became one of the most prominent cities in West Africa. Mansa Musa developed Timbuktu into a place of intellectual debate ...

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.

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 ...

It's impossible to measure the wealth of this man. In history, the richest man was the African emperor Mansa Musa, who ruled over the Mali Empire of the 14th century. The richest man in history. In ...