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City lives: custodian of Timbuktu's literary past looks to digital future
by Alex Duval Smith

The Guardian    Translate This Article
16 September 2014

On 16 September 2014 The Guardian reported: When extremists occupied Timbuktu, its 'blasphemous' manuscripts were their first target. But many are now preserved and digitized in homes -- and, families believe, protecting them in return. 'Here you have about 3,000 manuscripts dating from the ninth to the 19th century,' says Abdulwadid Abderrahim Haidara as he opens a rusty metal chest. 'Some are short -- three, four pages -- some run to a hundred pages. The subjects are religion, astrology, history, jurisprudence, and medicine. There are also some accounting ledgers written by gold and salt traders. I really need to get them on to a memory stick or a CD.' Global Good News service views this news as a sign of rising positivity in the field of culture, documenting the growth of life-supporting, evolutionary trends.

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