In addition to encouraging the arts and architecture, he also funded literature and built schools, libraries and mosques. Timbuktu soon became a centre of education and people travelled from around the world to study at what would become the Sankore University.
E Encyclopaedia Africana
March 12, 2021
EGYPT: REJECTION OF WESTERN BEAUTY STANDARDS
Now when I look at natural hair, I see the amount of character it reflects and the amount of independence.”
Encyclopaedia Africana Y
February 28, 2021
YOUSSOU N’DOUR
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
C Encyclopaedia Africana
September 11, 2020
DR CHEIKH ANTA DIOP
Only by reexamining and restoring Africa’s distorted, maligned and obscured place in history could the physical and psychological shackles of colonialism be lifted from our Motherland and from African people dispersed globally.
E Encyclopaedia Africana
August 28, 2020
EGYPT NATIONAL ANTHEM
Egypt, land of bounties
You are filled with the ancient glory
My purpose is to repel the enemy
And on God I rely