https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4V-QAzKQ3A The city of Timbuktu is at the southern tip of the Sahara Desert. The city has many houses made with adobe. Timbuktu was founded during the 11th century and thrived on trade across the Sahara. In the 16th century an estimated 100,000 people lived in the city. Caravans still cross the desert and come…… Continue reading Timbuktu
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The University of Sankore at Timbuctoo: A Neglected Achievement in Black Intellectual History
If the University of Sankore had not been destroyed; if Professor Ahmad Baba, author of forty historical works, had not had his works and his university destroyed; if the University of Sankore as it was in 1591 had survived the ravage of foreign invasions; the academic and cultural history of Africa might have been different…… Continue reading The University of Sankore at Timbuctoo: A Neglected Achievement in Black Intellectual History
