Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through March 26, 2006, "West African Gold: Akan Regalia from ... the Akan peoples of southern Ghana, kings and their retinues have proclaimed ...

At some stage in his early 20s he became king. The eighth Mansa ... and that is how Musa came to be so rich – via salt and gold, mainly. West Africa has always had lots of gold.

An African ruler is attempting to reclaim gold from the collection of King Charles, the Telegraph can reveal. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the king of the Asante people in Ghana, celebrated a landmark ...

Here's everything we know about this legendary king: Musa Keita I came ... struggling and and facing declining gold and silver production, while many African kingdoms were thriving.