Timbuktu is an oasis city in the West African state of Mali with 54 453 inhabitants (census 2009). The name supposedly means “fountain of Buktu”. According to legend, was Buktu (French spelling Bouctou ) a slave, with a herd of goats from the Tuareg was left behind to guard a well. The name is “woman with a big belly,” meaning, perhaps, these are but a folk etymology . Some historians consider this the tradition of myth-borne justification of the former elite of Timbuktu for social stratification, that is the dichotomy between light-skinned gentlemen, the Tuareg, and dark-skinned vassals,
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:08:37 +0000
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