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Sankore Mosque and Manuscript Libraries
Timbuktu, N/A, Mali
A center of Islamic scholarship under the Songhai Empire, holding an estimated 25,000 students at its peak under Askia Muhammad, comparable in scale to Oxford in the same era. Its manuscript libraries hold over 700,000 surviving documents.
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The myth this site refutes: that Black communities lacked investment in learning. HBCUs and freedom schools existed before many white institutions.
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"Shared theme: Education & International Diaspora Connections"
"Shared theme: Education & International Diaspora Connections"