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RE: African King Musa Keita I, Richest person of all time, should be as familiar to us as King Solomon
I think you'll be happy to know that my 7th graders are learning about Mansa Musa and Sundiata Keita in our history class at the moment :-) We do live in Africa though. Would be great if they learnt about them in other parts of the world though. Perhaps they do. I don't know.
They were both remarkable leaders - allowing their people to convert to Islam or retain their traditional African beliefs or even take on both (which is what Sundiata did) and also allowing slaves to work for their freedom. I really enjoy teaching and learning about this time in history. Was thus great to come across your post!
You sound like a great teacher!
For all I know, maybe today's children *are learning about great leaders and African history.
It occurs to me I have no way of knowing what other people are learning, these days.
How would I find out what's in the curricula of thousands of U.S. schools