It was early in the summer of 2012, and at the Mamma Haidara - TopicsExpress



          

It was early in the summer of 2012, and at the Mamma Haidara Linbrary in Timbuktu, a clandestine operation was under way. Night after night, a team under the direction of the librarys found, Abdel Kader Haidara, quietly packed the ancient works of astronomy, poetry, history and jurisprudence into metal chests, then spirited them out of the library in mule charts and 4x4s to safe houses scattered around the city. Learn more about the brave sage of Timbuktu: Abdel Kader Haidara in Pulitzer Center grantee Joshua Hammers article: bit.ly/1lQkynY
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:05:00 +0000

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