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The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know

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The History of the Empire of Molly

Within oral traditions, there are all sorts of contradictions, particularly about place. We have indicators from travellers like iben batuta. And so we can try to their accounts to zero in on where molly's centre or molly's capital might have been. The difficulty is that when the the french a arrived in maly and essentially finished their conquest of moli around 18 92, there was already an immediate interest in the history of the empire of moli amongst colonial historians.

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