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The Silent Scholars: Songhai's Lost Libraries
Long before the Saadian invasion scattered its scholars, the Songhai Empire was home to some of Africa's most extraordinary libraries. This episode follows the lives of the scribes, jurists, and collectors who filled Timbuktu's shelves with thousands of manuscripts — and the women who quietly preserved them. We explore the private libraries of the Aqit and Wangara families, the role of the hajj in building book collections, and the devastating intellectual loss when Ahmed Baba's own library was seized and taken to Marrakesh. Drawing on the Tarikh al-Sudan and surviving…
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