Name: MANSA! World's First Black Sci-Fi Super Hero

Born: 13,000 A.D. / BIRTHPLACE: BLACKLANTIS, Land of the Blacks

Mansa Musa, (heir) 14th century Emperor of the Mali Empire, the African ruler most known to the world for his elaborate pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 1324, introducing this African ruler to the leaders of the Middle East and Europe. Mansa's leadership of Mali was a state which stretched across two-thousand miles from the Atlantic Ocean to Lake Chad. Mansa Musa ensured decades of peace and prosperity in Western Africa.