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ABUBAKAR KEITA II

Sultan Abubakr Keita II of the Mali Empire, the predecessor of Mansa Musa, sailed to America 180 years before Christopher Columbus.

The court tradition of Mali and documents in Cairo tell of an African king, Mansa Abubakr (Abubakar) Keita II, setting out on the Atlantic in 1311.

He commandereed a fleet of large ships, well stocked with food, gold and water and embarked from the Senegambia coast, the Western borders of this west African empire, entering the Canaries current 'a river in the middle of the sea' ... as the captain of a preceding fleet (of which only one ship returned), described it.

Neither of the two Mandingo fleets came back to Mali to tell their story, but around this same time evidence of contact between West Africans and Mexicans appears in strata in America in an overwhelming combination of artifacts and cultural parallels.

A black haired, black bearded figure in white robes, one of the representations of Quetzalcoatl, modeled on a dark-skinned outsider, appears in paintings in the valley of Mexico while the Aztecs began to worship a Negroid figure mistaken for their god Tezcatlipoca because he had the right ceremonial color