The Mali Empire was founded in 1226 CE by Sundiata Keita. Sundiata was the second son of the King of the Mandinka people. It was prophesized that Sundiata would become a great ruler. Upon the ...

In the 1230s, a man called Sundiata Keita incorporated a series of smaller kingdoms into the Mali Empire. The empire was central to several key trading routes, and with the support of a well ...

Singer and virtuoso kora player Wassa Kouyaté will be accompanied by Balla Kouyaté, a virtuoso player of the balafon (West African xylophone). “Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata ...