Sundiata spent his time in exile with the King of Mema. However, the Sosso Empire conquered the Mandinka people, and his elder brother fled. Sundiata, at the age of 18, rallied the support of his ...

Known as the Sosso-Bala, it is kept in a round mud hut ... FOR ALL ITS dazzling prosperity, one of its most striking aspects of the Mali Empire is how little the outside world knew about it ...