This is what the king Mansa Musa brought with him on his trans-Saharan pilgrimage from Mali to Mecca: “8,000 courtiers, 12,000 slaves and 100 camels each carrying up to 300 pounds of pure gold,” according to the introduction to a superb new exhibition at Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art.
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