Africa: AAI "Following the Gold Road" online conference and Afropop's "Mali Gold" Playlist – allAfrica.com

Illustration of Mansa Musa holding a golden staff, with an old map of Africa in the background and the text “Mansa Musa: The Man Behind Mali Gold.”.

New York — We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Africa-America Institute’s State of Education 2026 Conference – “Following The Gold Road–Global Medieval Africa in the Time of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai.

This exciting, free online conference, launching this month, spans 1,400 years of fascinating, under-recognized history created by our colleagues at AAI in partnership with Howard University’s Center for African Studies and Boston University’s African Studies Center. We go back to a time when Mansa Musa, the 14th