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Abubakari II, Mansa (King) of the Mali Empire in the 14th century, led Malian sailors to the America(s), specifically present-day Brazil, almost 200 years before Columbus arrived. He ruled what was arguably the richest and largest empire on earth, covering nearly all West Africa.

He left with 2000 boats’ by Malian scholar, Gaoussou Diawara, notes:..

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African-Guyanese historian Ivan Van Sertima, writing on the testimony of Emperor Kanku Musa recorded by the Arab Ibn Amir Hajib and transcribed by Al Omari in the 14th century in Egypt during the pilgrimage of Musa Explained:

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Abubakari II handed his throne to his brother, Kankou Moussa, and set off on an expedition into the unknown in 1311.
“The emperor gave up all power and gold to pursue knowledge and discovery,”
His brother, Kankou Moussa (Mansa Musa) would become the richest man in all of history.

On Abubakari II’s arrival in Brazil...

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Beyond Columbus, evidence of African contributions to American civilization includes “importing the art of pyramid building, political systems and religious practices as well as mathematics, writing and a sophisticated calendar”.

Van Sertima cites the Aztec divinity Quetzalcoatl who is sometimes represented in Mexico as a Black man with a beard, dressed in white, who arrived in 6 cycles after the last man who came from the foreign lands.

Others also say the presence of stones heads with ‘African features’ of the ancient Olmec Civilization in South America, prior to the Aztecs and Mayans, is even more proof.

With mounting evidence to suggest of African presence in the Americas before Columbus, it may be fair to say that Africa’s relationship with the Americas did not start with slavery. But with sailors, explorers, and kings.

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