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the city stands north of the Niger on the caravan road
Timbuktu is in West Africa, not Egypt
she is in Africa, not Arabia
far from India, in West Africa
her road joined the salt mines to the gold fields
her goods were salt and gold, not silk
oil was not the caravans'' goods
her books were locally authored, not imported
the sources credit the pilgrim king
Saladin was in Egypt and Syria, not Mali
he was in al-Andalus, not West Africa
Hulagu was a Mongol destroyer, not a builder
the sources give this count in family collections
a hundred is a small library, not a university
a billion exceeds what the sources record
her library is among Africa''s greatest
the sources have her scholars carried to Marrakesh
the building was two centuries earlier
Europeans had reached her earlier
trade went on though the rule changed
the books passed between families for generations
the manuscripts were in family holdings, not the state''s
her people kept them, not the colonizer
most survived through her people''s efforts
she gathered mosques, schools and manuscripts
she was never a world capital
Timbuktu is desert, not coastal
she did not invent writing, she preserved it
she witnessed learning reaching the continent''s heart
the city reached Africa''s inland heart
Timbuktu was a great Islamic centre
she was African-Islamic, not European
the Tarikh al-Sudan and Tarikh al-Fattash reach us
her people wrote of her before Europeans
her historians and scholars documented her
the Ottomans never reached her
she witnessed the written word spreading deep in Africa
Timbuktu was a centre of history and books
the Sahara was a road for caravans and learning
the city reached Africa''s Islamic heart
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