Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

---

Mansa Musa: The Richest Man Who Crashed Cairo's Gold

The most famous ruler of the Mali was Mansa Musa I who while on a pilgrimage to Mecca spent and gave away so much of his gold during a stop-off in Cairo that the value of the gold dinar in the city crashed by 20%. It took 12 years for the flooded gold market to recover. It's not all that surprising then that despite keeping the exact source of his gold a closely guarded secret Mansa Musa. I became known far and wide as the richest man in the world an honorific challenged by modern-day scholars

#mansa #musa #gold #goldtrade #mali #mecca #cairo