Mali Empire's Mansa Succession Period (1270s)

Name: Mali Empire's Mansa Succession Period (1270s)
Start: 1271
End: 1280

Type Event Region West Africa Time 1271–1280

In the 1270s the Mali Empire consolidated under Sundiata's heirs, ruling upper-Niger gold mines and Sahel trade routes from Niani as a prelude to Man…

Timeline

1271–1274Niani · MaliSundiata's son Mansa Wali succeeded to the throne, continuing suzerainty over Malinke peoples and vassal kingdoms, maintaining the imperial administration centered on Niani and providing stable guarantees for trans-Saharan gold trade.
1275–1280Timbuktu trade route · MaliDuring Abu Bakr I's reign, control over northern trading towns such as Gao and Timbuktu was strengthened, the salt-gold exchange system prospered, and the Mali wealth later recorded by Arab chroniclers was gradually accumulated in this stage.

Sources

Sunjata: A West African Epic of the Mande Peoples — David C. Conrad (2004)
Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa'di's Ta'rikh al-Sudan down to 1613 — John Hunwick (2003)