Under-Told Stories Project

Africa

Timbuktu Libraries

cover of an old book with illegible textTimbuktu is a region of history and high Islamic scholarship.
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November 7, 2008 by

Fred de Sam Lazaro is executive director of the Under-Told Stories Project at the University of St. Thomas and a correspondent for PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.

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