The Eye of Africa- the Mali Empire

The Eye of Africa- The Mali Empire

Before the 14th Century, multitudinous empires emerged and collapsed on the land of West Africa, but Mali was the only one that attracted both the European and Islamic world to discover the amazement in Western-Africa. The reason why Mali was firmly insisted as one of the most indigenous and the most potent empires in history for all time is because of its magisterial civilization, cogitation, religion, and trade system in its wide span dominion. Of all developments, Mali Empire’s advantageous progress in transportation and ecology system brought bonanza to itself, besides, trade also played a pivotal role throughout its heyday during the 14th century. The three factors, transportation, ecology system, and trade network, aided Mali to a greater extent Empire, and modeled its irreplaceable status throughout ancient Africa.

The predecessor of the Mali Empire was merely a vassal tribe of the Kingdom of Ghana. “Mali emerged against the back-drop of a declining of Ghana under the dynamic leadership of Sundiata of the Keita clan.” (West African Kingdoms - Mali.) Sundiata not only established the prestigious Mali Empire, but also laid the foundation for the efficient and profitable trade system. Before Sundiata acquired the authority, the draft of gold trade and excavation was set up and implemented for a while. Conquering the Kingdom of Ghana, Mali gradually established a mightier kingdom by conquering and integrating of minute states, then accumulated into a broader region. The Mali followed the former transaction system that the Ghana Empire applied, but the Mali did