Meet Mansa Musa the richest man who ever lived.

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Love and happiness or money and power choose your fate, if this question was presented to you, what would be your response? The few I have interacted with would go for money and power… love and happiness is overrated they say … you are aware of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet; you don’t want to go down that road.

Cinderella alone believed in happily ever after, which can only happen in fairy tales and this is real life. To heck with love and happiness!

Money is power, power is money, money talks, money is influence, lets just conclude like halfwits money is everything, has been, still is and will remain to be, was it not for money that greedy Judas betrayed the Son of the Highest?

Talking of cash, I mean pure riches, massive wealth unimaginable treasure, not the Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos of Amazon size of wealth but Mansa Musa’s kind, a west African Emperor of Mali in the 14^th century.

Mansa Musa is said to be the richest person who ever lived, with his net worth approximately 400bn dollars today’s currency, you now realize why Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don’t make the cut, it is twice their net worth, that amount of money belonging to one-person! Crazy! Right?

Let’s have some fun and convert the amount to Kenyan currency to make sure you understand the amount of money am talking about, to be honest I can’t convert that, if you can please leave it in the comment section, that was the sum I was talking about, unthinkable totals of cash.

Musa’s wealth is said to have come from gold and salt, want to become second Musa? Start collecting salt in lake Magadi, gold is hard to come by, talking of gold, a Roman Crassus was killed by molten gold by his enemies after loosing in a gold heist, the liquid gold was poured into his mouth through his throat, gold is not that good after all stick to salt.…hahha.

Back to our history lesson, your money idol Musa is said to have set out for a pilgrimage to Mecca, which awakened the whole world. The visit was royal and grandeur, Mansa was accompanied by a caravan consisting of 60,000men inclusive of 12000 enslaved people all clad in brocade and Persian silk, silk was their Gucci or louis Vuitton; what made is so valuable was for the reason that it was gotten from the filaments of the cocoon of a silk worm, gross.

He was also accompanied by 21000 kilograms of gold, 100elephants, and 80 camels, assuming they carried packed lunches, that was a lot of packed lunches!

He was so generous with his gold that its value fell, so when you want to talk about your two pennies ask whether it’s affecting the economy in any way, buying your friends drinks is not wealth. ...see what wealthy people do …give out gold only for the country to take years recovering from the kindness.

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