Life of the Week: Mansa Musa
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time. |
| 0:05.0 | A bit of a different thing going on this week. |
| 0:07.3 | You've been immature and you've lied. |
| 0:10.3 | And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me. |
| 0:13.9 | I was trying to manipulate you. |
| 0:15.7 | Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window. |
| 0:18.1 | I know, I'd be like, are you joking? |
| 0:20.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.7 | I guess you'd have to ask. |
| 0:23.5 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:24.3 | Someone that has sex. |
| 0:26.2 | And remember, it's just between us. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello and welcome to Life of the Week, |
| 0:34.8 | where leading historians delve into the lives of some of history's most intriguing and significant figures. |
| 0:42.1 | From ancient Egyptian pharaohs and medieval warriors to daring 20th century spies. |
| 0:52.0 | In the list of the world's all-time wealthiest people, one name regularly tops the charts, |
| 0:59.0 | Manza Musa. Ruling a kingdom that stretched across West Africa, the 14th century Mali Emperor is best |
| 1:06.4 | known for undertaking a glittering pilgrimage towards the holy city of Mecca. |
| 1:12.1 | Yet, as Hannah Cusworth argues in this episode, Manza Musa left a much larger legacy than that. |
| 1:19.6 | Emily Griffith spoke to Hannah to find out more about his extraordinary life. |
| 1:24.2 | So we are going to be diving into the life of Mansa Musa. And the big question we need to really |
| 1:29.9 | answer is, who was Mansmusa? Yeah, it's a great starting question. So some of your listeners |
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