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Poetry A GO Kɔtɔkɔ Way 5 Views • 5 hours ago

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Curriculum literally means "to run a race." 🏃🏾‍♂️💨

So here's how we line up at Ọmọ́wálé Speaks:
📘 Grammar = GET READY
✍🏾 Writing = GET SET
📖 Poetry = GO.

Our scholars are off the blocks, and they're not looking back.

Omowale Speaks. Let's go. 🏁🔥

Ayiti 🇭🇹: 47+ DEAD in Haiti | The SCAM of Western Security Assistance Kwabena Ofori Osei 6 Views • 13 hours ago

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What Happened to Mansa Musa’s Royal Family After the Mali Empire Fell? Kwabena Ofori Osei 4 Views • 17 hours ago

Mansa Musa is widely considered the richest person who ever lived. His wealth was so vast that economists have given up trying to calculate it. During his famous pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, he gave away so much gold in Cairo that he crashed the Egyptian economy for over a decade. But Mansa Musa didn't build this empire alone. He inherited a dynasty — the Keita family — that had been accumulating power and wealth for generations before him. His great-uncle Sundiata Keita, a crippled prince driven into exile, rose from nothing to defeat a tyrant and found the Mali Empire from scratch. At its peak, Mali controlled half the world's gold supply, built one of the greatest universities in history, and commanded a territory larger than Western Europe.

But after Mansa Musa died, everything fell apart. Weak successors, civil wars, power-hungry viziers, and rising enemies tore the empire to pieces. Within two generations, the golden age was over. Within two centuries, the empire was gone entirely. So what really happened to the family that built the richest empire in human history? And where are the Keitas today?

This is the full story of how one dynasty rose from exile and poverty to build the wealthiest empire the world has ever seen — and how they lost it all.

FAIR USE DISCLAIMER: This video is for educational and commentary purposes.

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Mandinka-Franco Wars: West Africa Guerrilla War Tactics Against the French Kwabena Ofori Osei 2 Views • 18 hours ago

Most of you may be familiar with the story of Mansa Musa and his famous pilgrimage to Mecca, but have you heard of the last "Malian" king, whose army manufactured its own rifles while fighting a guerrilla war against the French?

The Franco-Mandinka Wars are considered by many scholars to be the first modern wars in Africa, requiring the mobilization of entire populations to assist in the war effort and involving the utilization of modern weaponry on both sides.

Take a look at the deadly and timeless tactics of West African insurgents.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - A Few Kola
04:26 - A Hyena with an Empty Stomach
08:32 - Even Today, the Waters of This Stream are Red

Audio:
The Malians - AoE4 OST

Sources:
- Studies in West African Islamic History: Volume 1 By John Ralph Willis
- Firearms, Horses and Samorian Army Organization 1870-1898 by Martin Legassick
- The empire of Samori Ture on the eve of colonialism (1870-1898) by Isaac Samuel, an excellent Substack article which you can read with the link below :)
https://open.substack.com/pub/isaacsamuel/p/the-empire-of-samori-ture-on-the?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web