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Fragile Heritage: On the Destruction of the Timbuktu Manuscripts

by 2Paragraphs in Fresh | January 31, 2013

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The literary heritage of Timbuktu dates back to the 15th and 16th centuries when the gold-rich kingdoms of Mali and Songhai traded across the Sahara with the Mediterranean world. It took two months for merchant caravans to cross the desert, and while gold and slaves went north, books were going south.

In his Description of Africa, published in 1550, the traveller Leo Africanus marvels that in the bustling markets of Timbuktu, under the towers of its majestic mosques, the richest traders were booksellers.

–excerpted from Jonathan Jones at the Guardian

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