7 Facts about Mali

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In this brief video you can find seven little known facts about Mali.

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1. Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire (for which Mali is named), and the Songhai Empire. Mali was the cradle of the Empire of Ghana, West Africa’s very first black empire.

2. Musa Keita I of Mali was one of the richest men in history. In 1324 he made his pilgrimage to Mecca, bringing with him 12,000 slaves, each carrying 1.8 kg of gold bars, 60,000 men, 80 camels that each carried between 23 and 136 kg of gold, and building a mosque every Friday during his journey.

3. Mali’s Great Mosque of Djenne is the largest mudbrick building in the world. It was first raised in 1204 AD. It was built on a square plan where each side is 56 metres in length. It has three large towers on one side, each with projecting wooden buttresses.

4. In the Malian city of Gao stands the Mausoleum of Askia the Great, a weird sixteenth century edifice that resembles a step pyramid. Askia Mohammad I, Emperor of the Songhai Empire, was buried there. All of the mud and wood came from Mecca.

5. Mali was also once called Sudan; the French administered the country as part of their West African colonies and named it Soudan in 1890. “Sudan” derives from the Arabic bilād as-sudān meaning “land of the Blacks”. What we now call the Sudan or the Republic of Sudan was part of Egypt until 1956. Soudan/Mali gained its independence from France in 1960 to form the Mali Federation with Senegal, until they fell out two months later.

6. The Dogon people of central Mali have more than 75 different ritual masks. Their most important masked festival, known as the Sigui, happens every 60 years (the next is due to start in 2027). It symbolises the period between the death of the first ancestor and the moment humans began to speak.

7. Although Bamako is the capital city of Mali, more famous is the city of Timbuktu. It was named as the most distant place imaginable in the 19th century, but for 400 years from the mid-13th century onwards, Timbuktu was one of the greatest centres of Islamic scholarship with three madrassas (religious universities) and an unrivalled collection of books and manuscripts. In 1450 it had 100,000 inhabitants: twice the population of London at the time.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/9972519/QI-some-quite-interesting-facts-about-Mali.html

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