Latest / Timbuktu: Africa's Forgotten Center of Knowledge — Fexingo History
Timbuktu's Lost Library: The Mamma Haidara Collection
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the remarkable story of the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library in Timbuktu, one of the most important manuscript collections in West Africa. They trace its origins to the 16th-century scholar and collector Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Wangari, whose family amassed thousands of texts on astronomy, law, medicine, and poetry. The conversation covers how the collection survived centuries of political turmoil, including the Moroccan invasion of 1591 and the Fulani jihad of the 1800s, and the heroic efforts of librarians during the 2012 jihadist occupation to…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.