It was 7 o'clock on a hot night in August, and Hassine Traore was nervous. Behind him were 10 donkeys, each strapped with two large rice …
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Timbuktu’s Literary Gems Face Islamists and Decay in Fight for Survival
There is a proverb in Timbuktu, the legendary medieval city in Mali's desert, that says: "The ink of a scholar is more precious than the …