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- 'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
- Mali disintegrates
People are rejecting injustice Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Malis general election this month looks uncertain, with rebels -- partly inspired by Islamist jihadism -- offering an alternative source of law and order in the central regions.
- Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Daring by a dedicated few saved many manuscripts in Mali from Islamists.
- Mali, Wahabis, and Saudis
Following the Money Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The impact of the Wahabi movement in Mali.
- The treasures of Timbuktu
The race is on to preserve papers dating back to a west African golden age Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 West African scholars are quickly discovering the wealth of manuscripts burried in and near Timbuktu dating from the 11th century. Governments and universities are building archives in which to house and digitize these important relics.
- Which Way Africa?
The Search for a New Society Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 Davison sets out to analyze the social, economic, political motives, myths, ideas, and beliefs which ounderlie modern African nationalism.
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