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Timbuktu's Slave Trade: The Sahel's Unspoken History
In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna explore a difficult but essential chapter of Timbuktu's past: the trans-Saharan slave trade. For centuries, the city was a major hub for the trafficking of enslaved people from West Africa to North Africa and beyond. Lucas walks through the scale of the trade, the mechanisms that sustained it, and the role of elites, scholars, and merchants—including some of Timbuktu's most revered figures like Ahmad Baba al-Timbukti, who himself owned slaves but also wrote a famous fatwa critiquing enslavement of free Muslims. The conversation…
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