In the fourteenth century, if you wanted to find one of the richest empires in the world, you wouldn’t have looked in Europe. Instead, you would have travelled to West Africa and the Mali Empire. The ...

Mansa Musa travelled to Mecca with a caravan of 60,000 men and 12,000 slaves Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released ...