John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com sends the above picture and this link:
EUROPEANS TAUGHT FOR CENTURIES that Africa had no written history,
literature or philosophy (claiming Egypt was other than African). When
roughly 1 MILLION manuscripts were found in Timbuktu/Mali covering,
according to Reuters "all the fields of human knowledge: law, the
sciences, medicine," IT DID NOT MAKE MAINSTREAM NEWS"
The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu 1 of 5 - BBC Travel Documentary
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on Jan 30, 2011
The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu 1 of 5 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 17.04.2010
Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long
hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its
university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof
that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to
Africans as to Europeans.
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Thank you for this reminder of the spectacular find at Timbuktu. That Africans could and would have had written history should have been obvious. But I did have a teacher or two who said Africans didn't leave written history. Being that I was in junior high school at the time and unable to disprove them, I felt cowed into silence. But now I'm pleased to see that wrongful history corrected.
Thank you.
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