who is the richest man of all time in human history
imagine a single individual having so much wealth they can control an entire region’s economy. In today’s world, when we think of rich people, we think Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, who is currently estimated to be worth over $199.7 billion . Yet, even with their seemingly outrageous wealth, these individuals do not control the economies in which they operate. It’s crazy to imagine that the wealthiest man in history is estimated to have been worth double Jeff Bezos’s current net worth. It’s even harder to believe, given the socio-economic status of most black Africans nowadays, the wealthiest man in history was a black African man. His name was Mansa Musa, the tenth emperor of the Malian empire, a West African territory. He was not only the richest man in Mali but the richest man in human history. Who was Mansa Musa? Details of Musa are not easily available. This is because he lived during the thirteenth century. However, using the writings of ancient A...