stopped in Timbuktu while making a television series about Africa. Haidara showed his manuscripts to the Harvard scholar, who had known little about black Africa's written history. "Gates was ...

It is a practiced soliloquy but a logical point of view for a man whose family controls Timbuktu's largest private library, with some 22,000 manuscripts dating back to the 11th century and volumes ...

“They torched all the important ancient manuscripts," Timbuktu mayor Ousmane Halle said. "The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu." A worker at the new Ahmed ...

In 2012, several buildings in Timbuktu, including 14 of the 16 mausoleums which form part of the World Heritage site, were destroyed within the context of armed conflict and civil unrest. Attacks also ...

In April 2021, the Government of Mali and UNESCO each received a symbolic euro from the International Criminal Court (ICC) as reparation for the damage inflicted on the people of Mali and the ...

including The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts and The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird.