text: One ruler of this type only gave a traveler bread, fried meat, and sour milk, and made his court poets wear bird masks.
full_question: One ruler of this type only gave a traveler bread, fried meat, and sour milk, and made his court poets wear bird masks. The Chronicle of the Seeker follows another of these rulers who killed his mother by accident. One of these men vanished in a "great whirlpool" at sea before the husband of Inare Kunati took this title. The leftmost enthroned man along the bottom of Abraham Cresques's Catalan Atlas held this position. Ibn Battuta saw these leaders' chief interpreter, or jeli, a precursor of later oral poets called griots [gree-oh]. Niani was an early capital for these people. al-Sahili designed the mud-brick Sankore university for a ruler of this title who brought dozens of camels loaded with gold through Egypt on his hajj. For 10 points, what leaders, such as Musa, controlled trade through 14th-century Timbuktu?
first_sentence: One ruler of this type only gave a traveler bread, fried meat, and sour milk, and made his court poets wear bird masks.
raw_answer: mansas of the Mali Empire [or emperors of Mali; or emperors of the Mandinka]