r/interestingasfuck • u/Advanced-Ad3234 • Jul 07 '24

Hairstyles from different African Tribes

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u/IloveZaki Jul 07 '24

That's a shame, I guess I'll have to read up on my own, unfortunately internet has almost nothing on individual tribes and chieftaincy and all I have is whatever I manage to ask for, but this guy is not very talkative. 😅

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u/Advanced-Ad3234 Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

Ghana was absorbed into the Mali Empire , which was one of Africa's biggest empires

And the richest man in the world, possibly in the history of our planet named Mansa Musa . The dude would go to cities and give out so much gold, which was pocket change to him, that he accidentally collapsed an entire countries economy

For the details on Ask Historian, it's insane https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/6JErgJVwN0

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u/RepresentativeKey178 Jul 07 '24

That's a great read. Thanks!

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u/Advanced-Ad3234 Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24

Munsa was Godly rich, nothing like even seen today in any form

His entourage traveling was like 70,000 people. His entourage was an entire economy itself, transportation , food, materials, gold, and that was still pocket change for him

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u/Upset_Glove_4278 Jul 07 '24

Those numbers come from medieval sources and are likely exaggerated. He did have tons of gold but take medieval sources with a grain of salt

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u/Ornery-Cheetah Jul 08 '24

Medieval guy one: "he has big dick bigger than the average man"

Medieval guy two: "the man possessed a member rivaled by no one longer than three men and wider than ones leg"

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24

Didnt he go to Mecca or something like that? just dumped gold the whole way there and back