TRAILS OF GOLD DUST – Follow The Yellow Brick Road….to West Africa, by Davin Michael Stedman

Studio time with Mell Dettmer includes a history lesson on the richest man in history, Mansu Musa of Mali. His wealth in today’s dollars was like…47 Trillion? His road trip to Mecca was inconceivable.

Malian history is rich man. I am not going to disregard Dead White Men. Many did fine work. But there is a much bigger picture than the narrow White Supremacy our school textbooks and daily programming will allow at this time. But honestly, it’s just History. It’s out there.

Black Kings and African History is really cool. An African History inspired Game of Thrones would be something. But also extremely controversial for White conservatives and most liberals. Mansu took 12,000 slaves humping 4 pounds of Gold a piece, all the way to Mecca. And a grip of camels with tons of Gold Dust. He was of course a trillionaire.

History is not PC. The whole of the story of Islam and West Africa is pretty touchy. Most Europeans couldn’t get past the f☆cking beach without dying from Malaria until nearly the 20th century.

World War 1 & 2 had quite a bit to do with European armies getting and cutting off the supply of the anti-malarial drug Quinine, so White soldiers could even fight effectively in the Tropics. Europeans were literally dropping like flies. Remember War of The Worlds when the invading aliens take a gasp of our air and it is their last?

So yeah…the Atlantic Slave trade took quite a bit of multicultural collaboration. It took a certain caliber of people and certain kingdoms with the wherewithal, technology, and knowledge to cross the Sahara.

Davin’s new song has been released and has become a global earworm and Caribbean dancehall hit. Listen here on Reggaeville: DAVIN MICHAEL STEDMAN & ANTHONY RED ROSE – FREE YOUR MIND FEAT. SLY & ROBBIE WITH LENKY MARSDEN. The video is now available on Youtube.

– Musician and writer Davin Michael Stedman has many ventures, such as the AMAZING blog, 100milesofmusic.com, and is one of the driving forces behind the Staxx Brothers. This past spring he spent weeks networking in and reporting from Kingston, Jamaica. He will return there soon for more recording. His single with British band Sherlock Soul is now available as well.