1. Mali is the biggest country in West Africa. It is roughly twice the size of Texas, the second largest American state. 2. Mali was the cradle of the Empire of Ghana, West Africa’s very first black empire. 3. When Mansa Musa, emperor of the Malian Empire in the early 1300s, made his Mecca pilgrimage, he made Mali famous by bringing with him 12,000 slaves, 60,000...
