Introducing...The Empire Of Gold

This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

Sony Music

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Wealth, power, redemption, and legacy: it’s the story of the richest man to ever live and his extraordinary reign. This is History is heading to West Africa, to bring you the story of the legendary emperor of Mali: Mansa Musa. Dan Jones speaks to historian Luke Pepera about Musa’s incredible journey, and what we can expect from this thrilling 6-part spin-off series. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Presented by Dan Jones and Luke Pepera Producer – Dominic Tyerman Story editing – Georgia Mills Executive Producer - Louisa Field Production Manager - Jen Mistri Marketing - Kieran Lancini Sound Design and Mixing - Gulliver Lawrence-Tickell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The early 14th century, West Africa, 30,000 boats set sail to the new world, never to return.
0:08.0	They leave a young prince suddenly in charge of an empire.
0:12.0	He has a journey of his own to make.
0:15.0	Seeking forgiveness for a terrible crime, he must venture across thousands of miles of perilous Saharan desert,
0:22.0	where he'll encounter danger in every turn.
0:25.2	Rival rulers, vicious bandits, disease, murder and menace await.
0:30.2	But this emperor also wants to travel in style.
0:33.7	He's bringing thousands of people along for the ride and enough cash to crash a country's economy.
0:39.3	Join me, Luke Pepper, as I take you to medieval Africa to tell the incredible true story of Mansa Musa,
0:47.3	the richest man who ever lived, and his audacious adventure which would change the world.
0:53.3	On This Is History Presents, Empire of Gold.
0:56.9	Available wherever you get your podcasts.
1:01.0	Hello everyone, that's right.
1:03.0	Our next This Is History mini adventure is going to take us somewhere completely new, Africa in the Middle Ages.
1:10.1	And holding the reins for that story is Luke Pepperer.
1:14.4	Luke's a writer, broadcaster, a historian, and the author of a brand new book called Motherland,
1:20.5	a journey through 500,000 years of African culture and identity. Luke, hello. Hello.
1:26.8	So tell us, what's this story going to be about?
1:29.6	The story is about a 14th century emperor of Mali in West Africa, Mansa Musa, who is the richest man
1:36.5	to have ever lived. And it's going to tell the story of his splendid and spectacular
1:40.8	pilgrimage to Mecca, which he does incidentally after having accidentally
1:45.1	killed his mother.
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