Mansa Musa
You're Dead to Me
BBC
4.7 • 11.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Who was Mansa Musa and how did he become the world’s richest man… ever? What did he do with his wealth? And why did everyone around him keep dying? Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Athena Kugblenu and historian and director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Dr Augustus Caseley-Hayford OBE. It’s history for people who don’t like history!
This episode was produced by Dan Morelle and scripted and researched by Emma Nagouse, assisted by Josh Daniels.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:06.4 | Hello and welcome to Your Dead To Me, a history podcast for people who don't like history |
| 0:10.9 | or at least people if you've got to learn any at school. My name is Greg Jenner, |
| 0:14.4 | I'm a public historian, I'm an author and I'm also the chief nerd on the BBC Comedy Show |
| 0:18.4 | Horrible Histories. Now on this podcast you don't really get a GCSE out of it but we are hoping |
| 0:23.2 | you'll get some laughs and a tip of information that you can impress your mate down the pub with. |
| 0:27.6 | In every episode we are joined by a historian whose brain is buzzing with historical expertise, |
| 0:32.4 | Nick Amidian whose veins are full of comedy pumping through them and today we are |
| 0:36.5 | joining back to the 14th century to Africa to bask in the glory of Mansa Musa, emperor of the |
| 0:42.5 | Marley Empire and the richest person who ever lived. Ever. He makes Amazon's Jeff Bezos looks like |
| 0:50.0 | some washed up 90s rock star on a comeback tour. Honestly, we are talking serious wealth. Joining |
| 0:56.4 | me today are two fantastic guests. In History Corner he's an art historian and researcher and he's |
| 1:00.8 | the man in charge of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, a proper, |
| 1:05.9 | proper job. You may have seen his excellent BBC series, The Lost Kingdoms of Africa and if you |
| 1:10.5 | haven't I really recommend you find it. It is Dr Gus, Kaisley Haferd. Hi Gus, thank you for coming. |
| 1:15.7 | It's wonderful to be here. You're in the UK for like seven minutes and we've grabbed you. |
| 1:20.0 | Thank you so much for giving us your time. Great to be here. And in Comedy Corner, she's one of |
| 1:24.0 | the smartest comedians on the circuit. She mines fantastic gags from the biggest issues in society. |
| 1:28.9 | You may have seen her acclaim stand up show Edinburgh. You may have heard her on Radio 4 shows or on |
| 1:32.8 | the Guilty feminist podcast or on her own podcast. It is Athena Kuflenu. Hello. Thank you so much for |
| 1:38.0 | coming to Athena. Thanks for having me. You like History. I like History. I do. I like it a lot. |
| 1:45.1 | You study History. I mean you don't just like it. I studied History even that was a long time ago. I'm |
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