Aspects of Mansamusa's Legacy

There is no epoc of mansimusa. Even if you go round from place to place doing local histories, you know, local memory and legend, you find virtually nothing about mansamusa. This is something i've reflected and i have three ideas as to why this is the case. The first, and a sort of most troubling of these, is it is said that he murdered his mother. And within the mande world view, within any world view really, the killing of one's mother is so impossible and such a despicable act. There are arguments that this might have been accidental. He might have been tricked into do this, or all sorts of different things. Second, it