Mansa Musa’s Wisdom

by Robert Walton

MANSA MUSA STOOD upon a high balcony and looked down upon his city. Niani stretched beneath Mali’s late morning sunshine like a lion relaxing, powerful and unhurried. A caravan of camels carrying slabs of salt from the Taghaza mines wound along Goat Herders Lane. Smoke from cooking fires drifted above the tents of merchants in the market plaza. Beyond the city’s walls, fields bursting with green abundance spread south and north to the great river, glimmering in the distance. All was well. Children’s voices, raised in something other than play, sounded nearby. Mansa Musa recognized his son’s voice among the chorus. He turned, walked down a stairway, and came upon a group of boys on the patio below his balcony. He stopped in the shadow of the doorway. Maghan shouted,…

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