Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived
Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived
By Naima Mohamud
BBC Africa
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-47379458?ocid=socialflow_twitter
"SNIP.....
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires' list released this week. With an estimated fortunate of $131bn (£99bn) he is the wealthiest man in modern history.
But he is by no means the richest man of all time.
That title belongs to Mansa Musa, the 14th Century West African ruler who was so rich his generous handouts wrecked an entire country's economy.
"Contemporary accounts of Musa's wealth are so breathless that it's almost impossible to get a sense of just how wealthy and powerful he truly was," Rudolph Butch Ware, associate professor of history at the University of California, told the BBC.
Mansa Musa was "richer than anyone could describe", Jacob Davidson wrote about the African king for Money.com in 2015.
.....SNIP"
defacto7
(13,485 posts)I'm sure he had a lot of stuff.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)"generous handouts" - not a Trump forefather.
MFM008
(19,774 posts)worth one half a trillion dollars in today's money.
He was an interesting character as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Fugger
3Hotdogs
(12,197 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)the article and what I've read all my life, agree that his wealth is impossible to pin down to a number" and Musa's estimated worth today is $400 billion, and your link compares Fugger to John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie whose wealth are below Musa's, then no. The honor does not belong to Fugger.
dameatball
(7,380 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Last edited Sun Mar 10, 2019, 02:06 PM - Edit history (1)
If you bothered to read the article, instead of a nasty remark about 2 whole groups of people, of which I'm one of them, you'd find Musa was from Mali and not Nigeria.
"Nice" of you to remain willfully ignorant by demeaning an educational post. Good grief, just when I start thinking liberals are different from their conservative brothers, someone comes and proves me wrong.
dameatball
(7,380 posts)apparent.
Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)for CPAC.
Still, I do appreciate your apology to justify it as just a joke, as if that magically erases it's insulting nature. Know your audience.
dameatball
(7,380 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)marble falls
(56,353 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)is the depiction of Musa's caravan of all white men. He was a black African as black as Malians are today. I think this is the earliest representation of Musa, 1280-1337, by Jewish-Moroccan cartographer Abraham Cresques, 1325-87. The article's image is from 1670 by an unknown artist.
applegrove
(118,006 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)Many times I have to stop myself from picking every nit when it comes to representation. But I felt that this is a good and necessary OP on DU.
applegrove
(118,006 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)will lead to wisdom