Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming ...

Dulcie Leimbach is a co-founder, with Barbara Crossette, of PassBlue. For PassBlue and other publications, Leimbach has reported from New York and overseas from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali) and ...

Thanks to globalisation, Timbuktu is not so remote any more, which may explain the decline in its usage as a byword for inaccessibility. According to Google Maps, it would take a mere 96 hours to ...

Other beautiful buildings include the ruins of Sans-Souci Palace, the Baroque former royal home of King Henri I, who was key in the Haitian Revolution that won independence from France in 1804.

Adieu Sankore Death according to Shakesphere is a necessary end which will come when it will come. Just as we do not determine when we should be born, the decision of when to die is not within our ...

The university – which is otherwise known as Sankoré Madrasah – was one of three centres of learning stationed within Timbuktu, Mali, which is a country within west Africa. Funded by Mansa Musa, who ...