#richest man in africa history

[karmicstar]

TEACHING MOMENT 👇Awesome Facts- Ancient Africa..

1. Africa was called Alkebulan (mother of

mankind).

2. Africa ruled the world for 15,000 years.

3. Richest man in history is an African King

(Mansa Musa).

4. Africa civilized mankind.

5. Mining started in Africa 43,000 years ago, In

1964 a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at

Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range.

6. Africans were the first to organise fishing.

expeditions 90,000 years ago at Katanga, Congo.

7. Africans carved the world's first colossal

sculpture 7,000 years ago.

8. The ancient Egyptians had Afro combs.

9. African Kings ruled India.

10. Africa is a home to World's oldest University.

Dr Manaka

[readyforevolution]

TOP 10 AFRICAN TRIBES/ETHNIC GROUPS THAT ARE GLOBALLY KNOWN.

(In no particular order)

1) Zulu ?? South Africa – The Zulu tribe is popular outside Africa. They’ve been featured in music, documentaries and movies. Shaka the Zulu was a warrior king whose popularity is well spread. Famous Zulus, Lucky Dube, Nasty C, black Coffee etc.

2) Yoruba ?? Nigeria – The Yorubas are globally known for their history, culture, art and literature. Fela, Wole Soyinka, Wizkid, Davido, Tiwa Savage, David Oyelowo, John Boyega, Anthony Joshua etc are a few Yorubas who have taken their culture to the world. The Yoruba culture has been featured in many Hollywood movies.

3) Masai ?? Kenya – The Masai are perhaps one of the most documented tribes in Africa, with alot of documentaries shown about them and books written about their culture.

They are known for their traditional clothing and hunting skills

4) Hausa ?? Nigeria – The hausas are very popular. Often known as the Igbos of the North, The richest black man in the world Aliko Dangote is Hausa along with his brother from the same state Kano Abdulsamad Rabiu (BUA). Their culture has also been well written about and have featured in a few Hollywood movies including the Amazon prime series were a woman was seen eating Tuwo shinkafa.

5) Igbo ?? Nigeria – The Igbos are undeniably known world wide. Chinua Achebe wrote about the Igbo culture alot. They are known for their history, culture and literature.

The popularized the kolanut and palm wine through books, movies and music

Chinwetalu Ejiofor, Zain Asher, Ckay, Flavour, Chimamanda, phyno, P-square are Igbos who have taken their culture to the world. Igbo are known in Nollywood movies.

6) Swahili ?? Tanzania – This tribe have phenomenal spread their language in East Africa and a few central African nations.

In the 70s, their language was part of the African-American black pride movement been pushed forward.

7) Edo/Bini ?? Nigeria – The Binis are perhaps the culture in Africa with the most famous artworks outside Egypt.

Binis are known for their history, culture and art/architecture.

The famous Benin bronze, ivory and brass artworks are known globally. The country Benin republic gets their name from them. Benin art and culture have been featured in Hollywood movies including black panther. Many Nigerian cultures have roots in Benin. The bronze mask of Queen Idia is perhaps the most famous mask in Africa and one of the most famous in the world. Popular Edos are Kamaru Usman, Rema, Odion Jude Ighalo, Victor Osimhen, Dave, Sam Loco Efe etc.

Asante Ghana – This tribe are known for their history and culture. Popular American hip hop artist was named after this tribe Asante. Their Kente is perhaps the most popular African attire outside of Africa and were known to be masters of the gold craft.

9) The Fulani – This nomadic tribes are known for their history and culture. They are predominantly in West Africa and are found in 18 African countries. Most In Nigeria ??

Popular Fulanis or people with Fulani ancestry are Muhammadu and Aisha Buhari, Tafawa Balewa,

10) Berbers/Amazigh – They are predominantly found in North Africa. They are predominantly found in Morocco ?? and Algeria ?? They known for their use of silver silver. Their culture and history well documented and have a unique language and writing system that traces back to ancient Egypt. Books are currently being written about them including a book titled salt by Haitian-American Pascaline Brodeur.

Disclaimer: Every African tribe and culture is beautiful, unique and important. No one culture is more important than the other. This only highlights tribes known outside the continent overall, this doesn’t mean there aren’t other cultures that aren’t known.

PLEASE YOU CAN ADD AND TELL US ABOUT YOUR TRIBE.

[morlock-holmes]

The people you’re arguing with re: pre-modern quality of life, are all broadly rationalist-adjacent, and are therefore deeply committed to arch-Whig-History and will never concede that anything was better for anyone ever before this exact moment in time.

for what it’s worth, I get your point - comparative social status is really great, and people who had a lot of it might’ve been very unwilling to give it up in order to certain material benefits of industrial society.

For a total no-brainer post-industrial example - anyone who’d trade being a trust fund playboy in the early 20th century for being a lower income wage worker today is a fool. There is no way you could legitimately argue that the internet is better than a life of relative leisure, high status, and wealth.

the further back you go, the trickier the argument gets, due to things like antibiotics, motorized transport, etc all being pretty handy, but I absolutely would go to bat that the median Regency English gentry or noble had a better quality of life than the median lower income American, in many respects.

go back to the Iron Age, gets a little trickier, but idk, I might still say that a high status Viking leader had a better life than I do, but it’s a smaller chunk of society the further back you go. Wealthy Romans seemed to be having a pretty decent time, tbh

I do think I’m more sensitive to relative status than some people. That said, I also think a lot of the Whig History fans I’ve known were part of the current socioeconomic top 10% and just didn’t realize how much it sucks to not have that status. Especially looking at a guy like John Green going in on it, like yeah John, of course you don’t rate being nationally known and respected for making a living pursuing your life’s passion, you’re doing that now

Well, I have another side to things, though you get most of it.

I mean, I don't want to overestimate wealth here. Part of my point is *also* that, assuming what we read of Diogenes is true, he was probably more fulfilled as a human being than Elon Musk, and Elon Musk is the world's richest man in the safest and most technologically advanced time in human history while Diogenes lived in a god damn jug.

Like, people who idealize or become nostalgic about the past are very, very often asking,

"Why do I feel so [angry/tired/hopeless/trapped] despite the fact that I have easy access to [insert material comfort here]"

And the response is very often to say, "Because you are fundamentally irrational. [Insert material comfort here] is actually the most important advancement in all of human history."

Like, in that conversation one person says,

"You live better than anybody in pre-industrial times."

And when I say, "Well, I don't know, Leonard Da Vinci and Gengis Khan seemed like they did okay"

A second person comes along to say,

"Well, those are inherently scarce positional goods, you can't expect social advances to make those more prevalent, what modernity actually gives us is travel, a library, a well-stocked sewing room, a hundred paintings you painted yourself"

And when I say, "Yeah I don't have that stuff either" a third person says,

"Yeah, obviously you can't expect to get that stuff, modernity gives you flush toilets, iPads and childhood vaccines."

And first of all yeah, I know, I said that, and second:

*Boy* have these rose-y eyed optimists spent a *lot* of time telling me what sorts of human pleasures I really ought to stop expecting to have more of.

I mean "wasn't stillborn" is quite literally the *absolute bare minimum* that a person can expect out of life.

Remember how in the 50s some kid would hate peas, and his parents would force him to eat them and if he complained they'd say, "You ought to be grateful for those peas, there are starving children in Africa"?

Turns out that "You'd better learn to be thankful for this because it's all you're gonna get and you could have it a lot worse" isn't actually optimistic or empowering.

And that sentiment lurks just below the surface of a lot of these odes to modernity.

PS - If you asked that pea hating child whether he would want to trade places with that starving African child he might well say, "Well, at least *he* isn't being forced to eat these awful peas!" and I think there is some justice to that response even if it doesn't represent a literal desire to experience a famine.

[ptseti]

The book that will change everything you know about African history:

When We Ruled by Robin Walker.

In 700 pages of groundbreaking research, Walker uncovers the hidden story of Africa's past.

If you don't have a couple of months to read it yourself, here are 10 important things I learned:

The Nubian Kingdom of Ta-Seti is the oldest kingdom on Earth

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.

The libraries of Timbuktu housed more books than any European collection during the Middle Ages.

In 951 AD, a cheque was written in Aoudaghost (Ancient Ghana) worth 42,000 dinars.

Ile-Ife (Nigeria) had streets paved with maize cobs in 1000 AD - But maize comes from America and Columbus didn't get there for another 400 years 🤯

Malian voyagers set sail for America in 1311 AD, 181 years before Columbus.

The Malian Emperor, Mansa Musa, is the richest man in recorded history. On his journey to Mecca, he stopped in Cairo and spent so much of his gold that Cairo's economy crashed due to inflation, and didn't recover for 12 years.

In the 14th Century, Timbuktu was 5 times larger than London.

15th-century manuscripts from Timbuktu show the planets revolving around the sun. They were written over 150 years before Nicolaus Copernicus discovered this in 1543

The longest earthworks in the world carried out before the mechanical era are the Ancient Walls of Benin and Ishan, located in Edo State in present-day Nigeria.

[adrianicsea]

Hello, I just want to say I'm getting most of my film recs from you. And I was wandering, have you seen any fioms that aren't western that you would recommend. I just don't know where to start. Anyways, have a nice day.

hi!!! that means so much to me— i love sharing the movies i’m passionate about, and it means a lot when people tell me that they check out a movie because of me 🥹

by non-western films, i’m assuming that you mean films not from the US or from western european countries— if that’s not the case, please let me know!!

i actually haven’t seen a ton of non-western movies myself, and that’s something i’d like to address!! but as far as non-western films i HAVE seen and enjoyed, here’s some that i’ve recently seen or ones that are still memorable:

promare— japan, anime, action/scifi. follows the adventures of galo, an enthusiastic member of a team of firefighters facing off against a terrorist group of pyromancers known as the mad burnish. as galo learns more about the mysterious leader of the burnish, lio, galo comes to question the way burnish are treated in society and if lio’s actions are truly in the wrong.

perfect blue— japan, anime, horror/thriller. mima, a retired j-pop idol, is being stalked as she pivots to an acting career. she loses her grip on reality as a series of strange, violent events begin to happen around her, including a vision of her own former idol self.

sweet home- japan, horror. when a film documentary crew sets foot in the mansion of a notorious deceased artist to research and create a tv special about his frescoes, they awake a dormant evil. this movie is notable because its tie-in video game was a direct inspiration for the resident evil series!

noroi: the curse— japan, horror. this is kind of a found footage/mockumentary style film that starts as an exploration of a purported “curse” and the strange events surrounding it, and then escalates to become something absolutely wild and ABSOLUTELY terrifying.

beau travail— france/djibouti, drama/thriller. while this film’s director, claire denis, IS french, she grew up in colonial french africa, and this film as well as many of her others explore west african culture and issues. in beau travail, the disgraced french legion sergeant galoup recounts the tale of his fall from grace and his cardinal sin of betraying one of his own, a beautiful, kind, and noble young cadet named sentain. this film is a loose adaptation of herman melville’s story billy budd, and it also explores the ongoing effects of the french legion’s presence in djibouti!

nosferatu— silent film (made in germany), horror. if you’re interested in learning about film history at all, western or otherwise, you can’t NOT look at the german expressionist movement! this is a classic, quintessential vampire story— in fact, nosferatu was made as a dracula ripoff when the director FW murnau was not permitted to make an ACTUAL film adaptation of dracula.

metropolis— silent film (made in germany), scifi. this is another legendary entry in the german expressionist movement! in a far-off, hyperindustrialized future, the richest people in metropolis live high above the ground, oblivious to the constant, dehumanizing labor and miserable conditions that are endured by the workers living down below. a sweet, naive young boy from the upper levels named freder finds his way down into the guts of the city, and he is awakened to the suffering of his fellow man and begins to agitate for a workers’ revolution. the work and effects in this movie are BEYOND impressive, especially for something that’s nearing 100 years old!!!

good manners— brazil, horror/fantasy with some musical elements. in são paulo, a poor nurse named clara manages to secure a job as a house sitter, nurse, and nanny to a rich single soon-to-be mother named ana. as the two of them begin to fall in love, ana recounts the story of her baby’s father, and reveals that both he and her unborn child are werewolves. this is a gorgeous, sensitive, and original take on the werewolf genre, and the creature effects are amazing!

RRR— india, musical/action/epic. this is kind of a fictional “what-if” scenario about the meeting of two real-life indian revolutionaries. bheem is a man from a tribe living traditionally in the jungles of india; raju is living as one of the only indian members of the occupying british forces, a traitor to his own people. by rights, the two should hate each other— but they meet while cooperating to rescue a child and become best friends instead, neither one aware of their true identities or motives.

zindagi na milegi dobra— india, comedy/road trip movie. three childhood friends meet up to go on an adventure before one of them gets married, and along the way, they each find the courage to do something that they’ve always wanted to do, like skydive or run with the bulls in spain!!

monkey man— india, action. an anonymous young man going only by the name Kid undertakes a years-long revenge quest in order to avenge his family and village, long ago destroyed by a fascist quasi-religious leader. this film has a lot of american influences/people working on it, but given that its director and star dev patel has indian heritage and that the film deals so squarely with indian culture and politics, it felt fair to include it here.

flee— denmark/afghanistan, partially animated, drama/biopic. amin, an openly gay man living in denmark, arrived there as an unaccompanied minor from afghanistan when he was a teenager. using a combination of documentary-style interview footage with amin and animated recreations, flee tells the story of his exodus from his home and of his coming to terms with his identity.

i hope that at least one or two of these sounds interesting to you!! and if you meant something different by non-western (ex ANY non-english film, just films that aren’t from the US), please let me know and i might have some alternate recs for you :)

[moneeb0930]

1. Africa was called Alkebulan (mother of mankind).

2. Africa ruled the world for 15,000 years.

3. Richest man in history is an African King (Mansa Musa).

4. Africa civilized mankind.

5. Mining started in Africa 43,000 years ago, In 1964 a hematite mine was found in Swaziland at Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya mountain range.

6. Africans were the first to organize fishing. expeditions 90,000 years ago at Katanga, Congo.

7. Africans carved the world’s first colossal sculpture 7,000 years ago.

8. The ancient Egyptians had Afro combs.

9. African Kings ruled India.

10. Africa is a home to World’s oldest University.

[a-student-out-of-time]

I’m frankly very disappointed people don’t know more about African history, especially before Europe decided to mess with it as it’s got such fascinating history. Like did you know that the richest man in history, a guy with a total net worth more then the likes of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos combined, hailed from Africa?

//It really is underrated and under-discussed

//The richest man in history was Mansa Musa, the king of Mali, who once gave out so much gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca that he accidentally crashed the economy of Egypt by devaluing gold as a currency

//That's how wealthy the man was, and he actually gave it out to people in need

//One of the most interesting historical facts for me is that various groups in East Africa, like the Maasai people, developed sutures long before European did. Their method was taking soldier ants from the order Dorylus, who are known to have huge jaws and strong bites, and using them to pinch their wounds closed and then popping off their heads. The result is a natural suture that naturally comes off and can be reapplied if necessary

//And that is extremely cool ^^

[realjaysumlin]

The richest man in history is a Black King from West Africa.

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this Week #129 (Year 3/Week 25):

A few months ago I discovered the early films of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first ever female filmmaker, and history's first director of narrative cinema. An enormously important figure, who was erased and forgotten until her recent resurgence.

The documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché shows how central she was to the development of all of cinema. A most fascinating and moving detective story laying open the amazing life of this pioneering heroine, who helped define its crafts and systems.

Narrated by (another prodigy) Jodie Foster. Like 'The Méliès Mystery' biography, these two are a must-see for any film lover.

Best film of the week! 10/10.

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The short film essay Celebration Sequences gives some excellent examples of “Storytelling's Most Useful Type of Scene”: Weddings, funerals, birthdays, parties, balls (and orgies). Celebrations give a story the chance to gather every important character and let them interact for a while under the auspice of important themes such as love and death.

Because of it, I watched Kurosawa's Hamlet-inspired The bad sleep well. Coppola listed The bad sleep well as one of his favorite films, citing the wedding ceremony of the first thirty minutes "as perfect as any film I've ever seen". He then used it as inspiration for the wedding sequence in The Godfather.

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The devil and Miss Jones [Not to be confused with the 1973 'The Devil IN Miss Jones...] was an unusual 1941 Capra'esque comedy, with a pro-labor bent. It dealt with some real labor, wealth inequality and capitalism issues. And, it did not paint them outright as 'communist' agenda!

The 'richest man in the world' goes underground in order to root out 'agitators' and union leaders, who cause trouble at one of his department stores. However, after working as a regular shoe salesman down in the weeds, he learns to sympathize with the cause of his new working class comrades (after falling in love with one of them, of course).

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3 by French director Nicolas Bedos:

🍿 Masquerade is a sleek caper, like Jim Thompson's 'The Grifters' but on the glitzy part of the French riviera. A young gigolo specializing in seducing rich, older woman falls for a beautiful young con-artist and together they devise a long-con to bilk high-maintenance diva Isabelle Adjani and wealthy real estate broker François Cluzet. Lots of erotic twists and thrilling turns. 6/10.

🍿 In his previous, genial comedy La Belle Époque, Daniel Auteuil is allowed to participate in an immersive reenactment of any historical period of his choice. After being kicked out by his wife, he decides to re-live a week in 1974 when he met her, the love of his life, at the La Belle Époque café in Lyon. A mix of Fincher's "The Game', with 'The Truman show' but with an imaginative heart. Better than Charlie Kaufman. 9/10.

🍿 OSS 117 was a French series about a fictional secret agent, a-la-James Bond, featured in 11 films and parodies. OSS 117: From Africa with Love is a stupid spoof of the EuroSpy genre of the 60's and 70's. and the third starring comedian Jean Dujardin (from ”The artist”). He plays a self-important idiot, politically-incorrect who can't get it up, more Peter Sellers than Sean Connery. Tintin was much deeper. 2/10.

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Because I don’t usually watch such low-brow low-budget trashy sub-genres, I enjoyed the crowd-funded Swiss exploitation Mad Heidi much more that I would under normal circumstances. The absurd story deals with a fascist cheese-based dictator, and a zaftig mountain girl who must escape Stalag-type prison in order to save the motherland and prevent a tainted cheese apocalypse.

As Joe Bob Briggs used to write in his early reviews "Cheese Nazis, cheese zombies, edelweiss throwing stars, and goat cheese hustlers. Mustard covered sausages inserted up the ass. About 10 exploding heads and torsos. Every Swiss cliché in the book, from 'Sounds of Music' and Toblerone to Alp horns, cuckoo clocks, cheese fondue, watches, and pocket knives - dialed up to 11. Women's prison-fu. Gladiator-Fu. Lesbo Fu. One Black Goat Peter. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Casper Van Dien as the megalomaniacal president of Switzerland. Check it out.” 4/10.

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Pierrot le Fou, my 8th New Wave stream of consciousness improvised exploration by JL Godard. Without a screenplay, and Everything Goes attitude, it's one long Pop Art of random allusions, aphorism, literary riddles and intellectual bon mots. Actually, apart from his brilliant debut 'À bout de souffle' (Breathless), I was bored by most of his films.

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The Novice, another remarkable first feature by a young female director (Lauren Hadaway, who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet). An obsessive freshman joins her university's rowing team and is so driven to compete that she destroys everything in her path, especially herself.

Hadaway's frantic use of film language is thrilling. Also her blending of music by Brenda Lee and Patsy Klein.

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As a teenager I admired Knut Hamsun, read and collected all his books. My pride and joy, and the oldest book I owned was the rare Hebrew translation of 'Hunger', published in Poland in 1889. So I stopped everything to watch Jan Troell's lionizing drama Hamsun about his final and dying years.

Hamsun was a towering Norwegian hero who later turned Nazi-sympathizer traitor and supported Hitler & Germany even as it occupied Norway. Max von Sydow plays him as a venerable 'Great Man', complex, selfish, stubborn and conflicted, and Danish diva Ghita Nørby plays his wife, who was even more pro-German than him. 3/10

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Another re-watch, Edgar Wright final installment of his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. Immature alcoholic Simon Pegg brings his 4 childhood friends back together to recreate the greatest achievement of their youth, a legendary 12-station pub crawl. Massive drinking & mayhem mixed with an alien invasion by blue-blooded androids.

Like the new 'Demon 79' it culminates with an unexpected apocalyptic Götterdämmerung. Yeah, 'The world's end' is not only the name of the last drinking hole. Plus points for the beautiful Rosamund Pike.

With every re-watch of any Edgar Wright movie, I go back to 'Every frame a picture' showing his visual comedy style, or other essays explaining his unique editing techniques.

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Instead of watching Jason Reitman's 'Up in the air' for the 5th time, I picked up his Front Runner. A bland 2018 Political drama about the fall from grace of Senator Gary Hart, caught with his fly open aboard a yacht called 'Monkey Business' while running for president.

I saw Gary Hart at a political rah-rah at UCLA the first week I came to the US in 1984. But the film itself added no new wrinkle to the usual cliches of election campaigns, newspaper editorial rooms, media ethics or the hypocrisies of public figures. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here).

[heightsofmadness]

Antoine de Saint-Exupery already did, in a way... or rather, he had a bit of satire around the backward behavior that leads to crypto-madness. Apologies in advance because I'm paraphrasing a book I read like 20 years ago.

There's a scene in The Little Prince where the titular protagonist arrives on a tiny planet (as he does frequently, that's kind of the idea of the book) populated by just one big thick guy, sitting at a big thick desk, scribbling madly onto a stack of paper. (or possibly typewriting? I forget)

"What are you doing?" asks the Prince.

"I'm tabulating my assets," says the man, or something similarly cockwafflish. "It means I'm maintaining the list of things I own."

"Oh. What do you own?"

And the man sort of gestures upward. "Those." He's pointing at the stars.

The Prince expresses some confusion about how he can own something if he can't physically contain it, or even approach it, or if no one has particularly agreed that he has the right to own the stars. He expresses confusion about how valuable it could possibly be for the man to own something that provides no value.

And the man sort of huffs, like, "you wouldn't understand, you're just a kid," and brags about how rich he is because only a rich man could own all these stars.

The Prince leaves shortly after, and the man is never mentioned again -- except on one occasion in passing, where the man is compared negatively to a different stranger on a different tiny planet, doomed to light and douse a lantern over and over without rest because the planet rotates fast enough that a day and a night together last roughly 30 seconds.

This lamplighter isn't helping anyone. They're suffering for no reason, unable to sleep or rest or leave because this lantern is their job... and worse, no one else benefits from this. No one else lives on this planet. They're helping no one. But the difference is, they could conceivably help someone some day. It is work with potential value, because there's a non-zero possibility that some day someone will arrive on that planet and need light at nighttime, and that makes it much more honest than this other asshole who just decides he owns a star and that makes him rich.

That's why I've never understood this constant pursuit of wealth -- not a living wage, not enough-money-to-be-comfortable, but wealth. Fuck-You money. Billionaire money. Because what then? Cool, now you can afford to buy a giant boat all for yourself. You can afford drugs. You can afford to buy off governing bodies. Now what? What are you doing? What are you providing? Sure, you can experience crazy highs that no one else can afford, but the thing about humanity is that our baseline shifts so easily. Congratulations on being able to afford a lifetime supply of Double-Cocaine. Now it's not exciting anymore, you just hate not having it.

Even Mansa Fucking Musa, the richest man in history, who single-handedly introduced the concept of inflation to East Africa, did so by going on a religious pilgrimage with the express purpose of giving money to the poor. He devalued the hell out of regional currency, but he did it with the intention of using his wealth for good. He wanted to provide for people in a way they couldn't do for themselves.

Setting aside how dumb crypto is - how it essentially operates by asserting that one randomly-generated ID is worth more dollars than a different randomly-generated ID, and the only reason scarcity even exists for it is because scarcity was built into the system - what is the fucking point? If someone sells a bitcoin for 10,000 dollars, that's great for them, because now they can support their family in pursuit of more enriching activities. But that's not what we kept seeing. We saw people who would make money from crypto, then invest it back into crypto so that they could make more money. And then when it inevitably crashed they lost it all. Because it's a trap. The pursuit of wealth - again, not comfort, but wealth - always is.

...Anyway that's why we should put a 100% tax on every dollar earned beyond the 1 billion mark and invest that tax into education, infrastructure, and healthcare.

This makes me so sad and also I'm trying to remember if any of the Discworld books dealt with late stage capitalism

[readyforevolution]

Mansa Musa Keita I, (1312CE - 1337CE), was the ninth mansa of the Mali Empire, which reached its territorial peak during his reign. Musa is known for his wealth and gift-giving, and has sometimes been called one of the wealthiest people in history.

(Mansa translates as, “Kings of Kings” or “Emperor”).

Under his rule, Mali became one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

From their gold and salt production, agriculture and imperialistic nature and dynamic trade location, the kingdom flourished. Forbes named him the richest man of all time. Mansa Musa Kieta I is famed with enriching the great trading city of Timbuktu, establishing the library and Islamic Universities.

His legendary pilgrimage to Mecca with over 60,000 attendants and lavish outpouring of gold to the poor across Sahel region, Egypt and the Middle East was chronicled by many and is suspected as what drew the attention of the Spanish crown and initial attraction of Europeans to West Africa. Made famous by the Spanish map, which shows him holding a golden orb, Mansa Musa is also credited with initiating extensive building projects in Mali from palaces, Mosques and urban developments.

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[na-mean]

Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Africa and the richest Black man in the world, with an estimated net worth of around $13.4 billion in 2024.

His business empire, Dangote Group, is one of the largest private-sector employers in Nigeria as well as the most valuable conglomerate in West Africa.

Dangote's fortune is primarily built from Dangote Cement, although he started his business empire by selling commodities such as sugar, salt, and flour.

While he grew up upper-class, Dangote was entrepreneurial from a young age and started his first business with a loan from his uncle.

After years of construction delays, Dangote's Lagos (Nigeria) oil refinery, the largest industrial project in the history of Africa, began producing diesel and aviation fuel in Jan. 2024.

[evelynfleitas]

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Since prehistoric man first stumbled upon a nugget, raw gold with its radiant sun yellow coloration and metallic luster has captivated and fascinated mankind. The unique gleam of gold attracts the eye, enabling the seeker to detect the smallest of grains in an aggregate of many other materials. The tiniest flakes are easily detected.

Anthropological excavations of Stone Age burial sites indicate that gold was the first element collected and prized by man. This unique metal, gathered in the form of nuggets, seems to have been highly prized but was not used in practical applications. Rating 2.5 – 3 on Mohs scale of hardness, gold was much too pliable to be hammered into workable tools or weapons. Gold carried little value for prehistoric man except to be admired and treasured for its rare, intrinsic beauty.

However, as man developed he soon discovered numerous applications for the mysterious golden metal. The earliest record of gold exploration dates to Egypt around 2000 B.C. Ancient records tell of an enormous alluvial gold deposit in Nubia, between the Nile River and the Red Sea in southeastern Egypt. This incredible discovery encompassed over one hundred square miles. Using the most primitive of tools and working to an average depth of less than six feet, these first “miners” pried an estimated one thousand tons of gold from this rich discovery. Egyptian artisans, recognizing the extraordinary malleability of gold fashioned incredible jewelry, ornaments and idols of breathtaking beauty.

Throughout the history of man’s involvement with gold, the precious metal has been prized not only for its beauty but for gold’s ability to withstand the rigors of time. No substance that appears commonly in nature will destroy gold. Unaffected by air, moisture, heat or cold, this noble metal will not tarnish, corrode, rust or tarnish. Shimmering gold dust, golden nuggets of placer gold and brilliant vein occurrences have survived 4.5 Billion years of cataclysmic geologic and climate changes; volcanic eruption, earthquakes, upheavals and deposition. Treasures of gold jewelry, bullion and coins, buried for thousands of years beneath land and sea have been found intact; as brilliant as the day they were abandoned.

A relatively rare native metallic element, gold ranks fifty-eighth in abundance amongst the ninety two natural elements that make up the earth’s crust. Although considered a rare element, of all metals gold is, with the exception of iron, the most widely distributed over the planet. Gold has been found on 90 per cent of the earth’s surface and is mined in high mountain ranges, in the deeply weathered soil of the tropics, harsh deserts and in the permanently frozen tundra of the Arctic.

Gold is commercially mined on every continent with the exception of Antarctica. The richest gold producing area of the world is the Witwatersrand District of South Africa. This ultra rich area has yielded eighteen thousand tons of gold with no end in sight. Additional notable gold bearing areas around the world are Siberia in the former USSR, the Porcupine District in Ontario, Canada and in the United States the Yukon District of Alaska and the famous Mother Lode District in California.

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Aliko Dangote Net Worth 2023, Bio, Wife, Childrens, Car’s, House, Yacht, Jet and Career

Aliko Dangote, CEO, of Dangote Group a business tycoon from Nigeria, will have $22 billion in his bank account by 2023. He is one of the richest people who live south of the equator. He is one of the richest people in the world. No other Nigerian man has as much money as he does. He is the African investor who has made the most money in history.

Nigerians respect him as the “King of Commodities” just Because of his wealth, South Africa, which used to have eight of Africa’s ten richest people, no longer has that power. It is thought that he is worth about $22 billion. Aliko Dangote is one of the guys with the most money in the world. Aliko Dangote got his money from the oil and cement markets.

Personal InformationReal nameAliko DangoteDate of birth10 April 1957Country of OriginFederal Republic of NigeriaNicknameDangoteSource of WealthBusinessmanCompaniesCement, Sugar, FlourNet worth$22 billion

Aliko Dangote Net Worth

Dangote is based in Lagos. He owns two private jets and spends daily 10 miles on the treadmill.

“Aliko Dangote” is a businessman from Nigeria who is worth $22 billion. Wikipedia, Forbes, and Bloomberg all say that Aliko Dangote, the most well-known businessman in Nigeria, is worth more than $22 billion. We looked at Dangote net worth of $22 billion. His company makes close to $28 billion in sales every year. After taxes, the company made $900 million. Dividends alone bring in $500 million for Aliko Dangote. Numerous reality television programs are owned by Dangote. The price of Reality Portfolio is close to $4 billion. Nigeria is covered by Dangote’s property. Dangote is one of the few African businessmen who make significant investments in the US and Europe.

Aliko Dangote Bio

Age– 66Source of Wealth- Cement, sugarSelf-MadeResidence– Lagos, NigeriaCitizenship- NigeriaMarital Status– DivorcedChildren- 3Education- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Al-Azhar UniversityDangote was born in 1957 on April 10. Dangote was born in a Nigerian hamlet. A Muslim background. The richest African, Dangote, is not self-made. The richest man in Nigeria was Dangote’s grandpa.

The father of Dangote served as the longstanding director of Shell Oil Nigeria. He was one of the richest Nigerians on the planet. The wealthiest African and Nigerian is Aliko Dangote.

Dangote, the richest man in Africa, is the CEO of Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement manufacturer.

Through a holding firm, he owns 85% of the publicly traded Dangote Cement.

With operations in ten African countries, Dangote Cement generates 48.6 million metric tons of cement annually.

Dangote’s Nigerian fertilizer plant started operating in March 2022.

One of the biggest oil refineries in the world will be the Dangote Refinery, which has been under construction since 2016.

The richest person in Africa never talks about his personal life in the news, but it was said that Dangote had been married and separated twice. At a young age, his parents chose a wife for him. Later, he fell in love with Nafisat Yar’auda, a friend of one of his daughters. She was the daughter of our late president, but she said “no” when he asked her to marry him. It was said that he quietly married the former “Beauty Queen of Nigeria,” Sylvia Nduka, in 2013.

Dangote wed Zainab Dangote in 1977; the date of their divorce is unclear. Although the exact dates of their wedding and divorce are unknown, he married Mariya Muhammad Rufai. Halima, Mariya, and Fatimah are his three daughters, while Abdulrahman is his adopted son. Halima started working for him as the executive director of business operations.

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Aliko Dangote Children

Son: Dangote’s adoptive son is named Abdulrahman.

Daughters: Dangote daughters Halima, Mariya, and Fatimah are his biological children.

Aliko Dangote House

As of right now, Dangote has more wealth than anyone else of African descent. His residence is a luxurious mansion. There are whispers that the home could be worth $30 million. In Abuja, where the house is. If you haven’t seen anything as stunning as this home, you haven’t been looking hard enough. A variety of paintings and lights give the house a vibe of Victorian elegance, and the interior is well-decorated as well.

Aliko Dangote Car’s

As expected, Dangote, a billionaire, owns expensive exotic vehicles. Below is the list of exotic cars:

⇒Bugatti Veyron—728 million ⇒Bentley Mulsanne – 112 million dollars ⇒Maybach 57S Knight Luxury – $364 million ⇒Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG—73 million

Aliko Dangote private jets

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The wealthiest man in Africa, like other billionaires, purchases private jets. Bombardier of Montreal sold Dangote a Global Express XRS. On Aliko’s 53rd birthday, the jet was taken to the Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos. It cost $45 million, equivalent to 16,3 billion naira.

Aliko Dangote Yacht

Alhaji Dangote is the richest person in Africa, and he knows how to have an enjoyable time. The CEO of the Dangote Group bought a boat for $43 million.

Career of Aliko Dangote

As was already said, Dangote got rich by selling goods. In 1970, a cement plant was the first part of his factory complex. In just five years, he grew to be the biggest cement maker in Africa.

After starting his own business, he put money into Ghana and other countries nearby. After he became the king of cement in Africa, he made the most sugar. After starting his grocery business in the 1990s, he now owns one of the biggest retail chains in Africa.

Dangote started trading rice and sugar in the 1970s.

In 1981, he founded the Dangote Group, which has grown into one of Africa’s largest companies. The Dangote Group owns cement, sugar, salt, flour, agriculture, and real estate. Dangote invests in banking, telecommunications, and oil and gas.

Dangote launched the Dangote Foundation to address health, education, and poverty in Africa.

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Aliko Dangote Awards and Achievements

Dangote has won various accolades and recognition for his work in business and philanthropy, such as:

⇒ Time magazine’s annual ranking of the world’s 100 most influential people as of 2014.

⇒ Forbes’ African Person of the Year for 2014

⇒ In 2011, he was made a Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) by the Nigerian government.

⇒ In 2014, the government of Nigeria bestowed the honorary title of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON).

⇒ The Clinton Foundation’s Global Citizen Award (2015)

⇒ Africa’s equivalent of Forbes’ Lifetime Achievement Award for 2018

⇒ Bloomberg’s annual ranking of the fifty most influential persons in the world as of 2019.

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The Ashanti Empire is the world's first center of education where the world's first university in the world was built by King Mansa Musa.

King Mansa Musa was known as the richest human who ever walked the earth for what he is often called "The King of Kings and the lord of the mines.

Europeans tried to hide his history as the French made claims of building the university of Timbuktu and like the rest of Europeans story telling was proven to be all lies.

Black African History is often told with extreme prejudice and denial of any Black Civilizations success because Europeans were indoctrinated in their beliefs that Africans and Black People are inferior to the white man.

Race in itself is an European invention to make claims that the Europeans were superior to all humans on earth and they use phony science to write books to justify this false claim even though real scientific evidence have proven that race based on skin colors are a man made belief and that the entire human race are Africans no matter what people may think.

Weak men tear down and demean others to make themselves feel superior to others are really the weak men. Strong humans build and try to empower those who feel weak, simply by comparison of a link in the chain from the Egyptian history of building the pyramids and the African Proverb of having a weak link in the chain makes the entire chain weak so make the weak link or build it to become stronger and you will find the chain to be stronger.

Wisdom have always favored Black Rulers with knowledge and common sense and Black People History didn't have to make false claims about our history because we were the ones who made this history, it's just sad that so many Black People believe in the lies of their colonizers instead of learning our own real history.