The Storied City
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Arabic manuscripts preservation supported by, 29, 311–12, 315, 348n, 356n
World Heritage program, 179–81, 185, 358n, 359n
United Kingdom. See Britain
United Nations, 155, 333, 360n
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. See UNESCO
Security Council, 186, 243
United States, 17, 25, 27, 37, 79, 110, 164, 195, 315
descendants of African slaves in, 313, 315
D’Ghies smuggled out of Tripoli to, 109–10
funding of Savama from. See Ford Foundation
State Department and diplomats, 186, 353n
Timbuktu Renaissance Action Group initiative of, 324
war for independence, 22
Upper Senegal and Niger, 285
Upper Volta, 264
Uranus, 22
Uzoigwe, G. N., 365n
Vall, Mohamed, 125
Van Sertima, Ivan, 366n
Vice and Virtue Squad, jihadist, 232–33
Victoria, Queen, 227, 267
Victorian era, 131
Vienna, 267
Vogel, Eduard, 177–78, 360n
Voyage au Congo et dans l’intérieur de l’Afrique équinoxiale (Douville), 130, 358n
Waday, 360n
Waddan (Libya), 30
Wahhabists, 146
Walata (Mauritania), 64, 215, 219
Walker, Darren, 307, 309
Walpole, Horace, 23–24, 350n
Walt, Vivienne, 364n, 368n
Wanderings Along the Punic and Cyrenaic Shores of the Mediterranean (Barth), 161, 360n
Wangara, 40
Wangari, Mukhtar bin Yahya al-, 116
Wara (Waday), 360n
Warrington, Frederick, 164
Warrington, Hanmer, 90–97, 99, 108–10, 224, 272
West African Research Association, 114, 356n
WikiLeaks, 353n
Willis, John Ralph, 137, 358n
Wise, Christopher, 367n
Wonders of the African World (PBS series), 313, 348n
World Food Programme, 118
World Heritage sites, 151–52, 155, 191. See also UNESCO, World Heritage program
Yakutsk, 37
Yale University, 114
Yamvo, Mwata, 132
Yellow fever, 5, 93
Yelwa (Nigeria), 75
Yemen, 135, 213
York, Geoffrey, 368n
Youth: A Narrative, and Two Other Stories (Conrad), 365n
Zanganeh, Lila Azam, 369n
Zawahiri, Ayman al-, 189
Zawiyat al-Kunti library, 336, 370n
Zelin, Aaron Y., 353n
Zipangu, 2
Znaga, 364n
Zouber, Mahmoud, 313, 367n, 368n
Zuwa Alayaman, 212–13, 319, 345
Zuwa dynasty, 212, 213, 311
PHOTO CREDITS
Man with burned manuscripts: Photo © Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images
John Ledyard: Photo © Dartmouth College
Colonial troops raising the French flag: Photo © The Print Collector/Alamy Stock Photo
Abdel Kader Haidara: Photo © Klaas Tjoelker
Ismael Diadié Haidara: Photo © Dr. Susana Molins Lliteras, Tombouctou Manuscripts Project, University of Cape Town
The Sankore mosque: Photo © Ian Nellist/Alamy Stock Photo
Anti-jihadist demonstrators: Photo © Magharebia/Flickr
Lockers filled with manuscripts: Photo © Klaas Tjoelker
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charlie English has held numerous positions at The Guardian, most recently as head of international news. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of a previous book, The Snow Tourist, he first journeyed to Africa at nineteen, and has traveled widely there and elsewhere around the globe. He lives in London with his family.
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