Khalifa Keita was the fourth mansa of the Mali Empire. Son of legendary founder Sundiata Keita, Khalifa succeeded his brother Ouati to the throne after Ouati's death (c. 1274). Khalifa died very shortly after (c. 1275) and was succeeded by Sundiata's grandson, Abu Bakr. Though little is known of either Ouati or Khalifa's reigns, sources suggest them to have been weak kings whose reigns brought the Empire few benefits. The Mali Empire was an Islamic Empire of the Mandinka people in West Africa from the 14th to 17th centuries. ... Sundiata Keita or Sunjata Keita (1190? - 1255?) is a semi-historical hero of the Mandinka people of West Africa and is celebrated in the Epic of Sundiata as founder of the Mali Empire. ... Events May 7 - In France the Second Council of Lyons opens to consider the condition of the Holy Land and to agree to a union with the Byzantine church. ... Events Eleanor de Montfort is captured by pirates in the employ of Edward I of England to prevent her marriage to Llywelyn the Last, prince of Jews over the age of 7 to wear the yellow badge and makes usury illegal Jean de Meun writes the second portion of the... Abu Bakr was the fifth mansa of the Mali Empire, reigning from roughly 1275 to 1285. ...
Mansa is a Mandinka word meaning "king of kings." It is particularly associated with the Keita dynasty of the Mali Empire, which dominated West Africa in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Sundiata Keita, legendary founder of the Empire, was the first to assume the title.
Other notable mansas include his son Wali Keita and the powerful Kankan Musa I, whose hajj helped define a new direction for the Empire.
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