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Mansa Mari Djata II

Type Figure Region West Africa Time c. 1330–1374 Also known as Mansa Mari Djata II、Mansa Jata、Mari Jata II、Konkodugu Kamissa

Mansa Mari Djata II (r. c. 1360–1374) was the tenth mansa of the Mali Empire's Keita dynasty, grandson of Mansa Musa and son of Mansa Maghan I, who s…

Timeline

  1. c. 1337–1360Burun · Mali EmpireJata was the son of Mansa Maghan (son of Musa). According to Ibn Battuta and Ibn Khaldun, Sulayman may have seized the throne from Maghan, and Jata went into exile in the Burun region. During Sulayman's reign (1341–1360) he was politically marginalized but retained his royal qualification to contest the throne.
  2. c. 1360Mali Empire · Mali EmpireAfter Mansa Sulayman's death, his son Qanba briefly succeeded for about nine months before civil war broke out. Jata won the civil war and consolidated power in late 1360, becoming the new mansa, marking the continuation of the succession crisis after Sulayman's era.
  3. 1360–1361Fez · FezSulayman had prepared a diplomatic embassy to the Marinid sultan before his death but did not live to send it. After Jata took the throne, he added gifts (including a giraffe) to the embassy assembled at Walata and dispatched it to Fez. The embassy arrived in late 1360 or early 1361, was received by Sultan Abu Salim Ibrahim, and caused a sensation in Morocco.
  4. c. 1361–1374Mali Empire · Mali EmpireIbn Khaldun recorded that Jata's rule was despotic and extravagantly wasteful, bankrupting the empire's finances and regarded as the starting point of Mali's decline. In his later years he suffered from lethargy and was long unable to govern; he died around 1373–1374 and was succeeded by his son Musa II.

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