The South Africa-Mali Project: Timbuktu Manuscripts was intended to inspire and unite South Africans in support of a cultural project in one of the most remote cities in the world. Mbeki was ...

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Africa has a long and vibrant history of illuminated manuscripts, reflecting the continent's rich cultural tapestry and artistic heritage. These manuscripts, typically religious texts embellished ...

Timbuktu became the heart of his empire ... It could educate 25,000 students and housed hundreds of thousands of manuscripts. Its scholars were renowned around the world and many of them travelled ...

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In Ken Prestininzi’s “Timbuktu, USA,” Secretary of State Kelly Kilkenny has spent much of her career in the upper echelons of power, though to some she’s known as the Great Virgin Who Refused.