Did West Africans live in Four Corners Region of the United States from 12th Century?

William James Veall in Sea-Farers from the Levant: Do Ancient Inscriptions Rewrite History of the Americas? – Part 2, published in Ancient Origins, provides a detailed discussion of the Mande inscriptions found in South America left by Abubakari and his followers along the coast. It also appears that some of the Malians who explored the Americas with King Abubakari of Mali, also settled in the Four Corners area of the American Southwest, where they left numerous inscriptions, and may have built some of the cliff dwellings found in the area.

Around A.D. 1310, thousands of West Africans arrived in the Americas from ancient Mali. Ibn Fadlullah al- Umari, in his encyclopedia “Masalik al Absar”, said that mariners from Mali during the reign of Abubakari made transatlantic voyages. Al-Umari, obtained his information from Mansa Musa, 
who was handed the kingship of Mali by Abubakari when he set out to colonize the Americas.

The ‘Voyager King’ Mansa Abubakari II – Africa’s Greatest Explorer (muslimnewsmagazine.tv)