Meet Mali – home of manuscripts, music and magic
Timbuktu is a city fabled to exist at the edge of the world, where the southern stretches of the Sahara desert end and a world of rich scholarly tradition, architectural…
The trials and triumphs of the Timbuktu manuscripts
The ancient manuscripts of Timbuktu — some 400,000 pages of text detailing everything from the Koran to mathematics to astronomy and astrology — are more than important historical documents. Central…
Exploring Afrofuturism on Google Arts & Culture
An image of a winged – half-silver, half-gold – figure lifts their hands up in the air. The figure’s torso sits on top of a municipal building and marble block.AstroSankofa…