Timbuktu is also no longer immune to the ideological ... or buried them in the sand. It was a modern-day version of a story that has played out in Mali for centuries, a story of war, depredation ...

In the ancient caravan city of Timbuktu, many nights before I encountered the bibliophile or the marabout, or comforted the Green Beret's girlfriend, I was summoned to a rooftop to meet the salt ...

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 ...

There were more than 400 cities in the Niger Delta. Timbuktu became the heart of his empire, the centre of trade and culture. News of wealth and learning spread far and wide. Traders and scholars ...