Mali Empire
Sakura was evidently able to stabilize his control of the Mali Empire, as he proceeded to launch a series of military campaigns which expanded the borders of the Mali Empire considerably. According to Ibn Khaldun, in his reign Malian rule extended west to the ocean and east to Takrur, by which Ibn Khaldun meant a land east of Gao and west of Kanem, not Takrur along the Senegal River. Trade between the Mali Empire and the rest of the Muslim world also began to flourish.