"We have no written history," I was ... preservationists from the University of Oslo and a pair of radio reporters from Germany were on hand to look at manuscripts. Timbuktu is also no longer ...

Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and ...

Timbuktu’s beginnings go back to the 1100s when a group of Tuareg wanderers from northwest Africa made a temporary camp near ...