A Comment on Fred Reed’s ‘The Place of Christianity in History: A View from Without’ Mr Reed is one of my favourite authors, and not just because he is a fellow cigar smoker, or because his cigar has the scruffy look of the wonderful cigars that I used to hand-roll in Colombia, but because he is a good thinker and writer. That said, I think that in this instance it is most … [Read more...]
Mansa Musa
This is a short follow up to an article I published earlier on the quantity of Gold in the world. PB Mansa Musa 1 ruled Mali from 1312 to 1337 AD. He was the tenth Emperor of the Mali Empire that spread over an area of half a million square miles (almost 1.3 million square kilometres). In the 14th century the Mali Empire was the civilised centre of the world. “Thus … [Read more...]