Opening these libraries up promises to re-balance the continent’s place in world history when it comes to its intellectual life.
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There are few visible results on the ground after eight years of war in Mali.
America’s answer to Kafka and Dostoevsky gets real at the Edinburgh International Festival.
The International Criminal Court has told Malian radical Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi to pay €2.7m in reparations for an attack on the world heritage site.
The ICC sentence against Al-Mahdi for destroying ancient artifacts at Timbuktu sends the right message that the international community will not tolerate the destruction of heritage sites.
Qunta advocates a reparations fund to accelerate corrective policies, that schools be freed from colonial indoctrination and that African culture should be mainstreamed, especially African languages.
Africa is losing rich heritage and historical structures through conflict.
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