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Mansa Musa ruled the great Mali Empire in the 14th century. He used his vast wealth to develop the town of Timbuktu into a cosmopolitan hub of Islamic learning in West Africa, as the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford, explains. Photo: Boy learning a Qur'an text (Getty Images)