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Mali Ancient Manuscripts

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  • Children memorize the Koran on tablets in the early morning chill at a Koranic School in Timbuktu, Mali March 11, 2007. , Children memorize the Koran on tablets in the early morning chill at a Koranic School in Timbuktu, Mali March 11, 2007.
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  • Arab Moors  who live in the remote town of Boujbeja struggle to survive in the harsh desert. "Boujbeja" means the luck of the desert but after a severe drought in 1966, they have been fighting the constant push of the sands and must dig 70 meters under ground to get water. Despite these difficult living conditions, the villagers do not want to leave and like the peace they enjoy from the rest of the world. The leader of the villager, Cheik Bey, is trying to preserve ancient manuscripts from his family. Sadly, many of them have been lost or severley damaged but for those that remain it is a magnificent reminder of Africa's literary history.  (Photo by Ami Vitale),
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  • Gao, Mali is located on the River Niger southeast of Timbuktu. in 2012, Gao was captured from Malian government forces by National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine rebels.  The MNLA lost control to Islamist militias after the Battle of Gao in June 2012. On January 26, 2013, the city was recaptured by French military .
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  • Gao, Mali is located on the River Niger southeast of Timbuktu. in 2012, Gao was captured from Malian government forces by National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine rebels.  The MNLA lost control to Islamist militias after the Battle of Gao in June 2012. On January 26, 2013, the city was recaptured by French military .
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  • Gao, Mali is located on the River Niger southeast of Timbuktu. in 2012, Gao was captured from Malian government forces by National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine rebels.  The MNLA lost control to Islamist militias after the Battle of Gao in June 2012. On January 26, 2013, the city was recaptured by French military .
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  • Children memorize the Koran on tablets in the early morning chill at a Koranic School in Timbuktu, Mali March 11, 2007.
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  • Abdel Kader Haidara looks at his family's ancient manuscripts that he is trying to preserve in his home March 6, 2007. In the past few years, with funding from different organizations including the Ford Foundation, thousands of the manscripts are being recovered, stored, preserved and studied. Sadly, many of them have been lost or severley damaged but for those that remain it is a maginificent reminder of Africa's literary history.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Gao, Mali is located on the River Niger southeast of Timbuktu. in 2012, Gao was captured from Malian government forces by National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine rebels.  The MNLA lost control to Islamist militias after the Battle of Gao in June 2012. On January 26, 2013, the city was recaptured by French military .
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  • Boubacar Sadeck, the last caligrapher in Timbuktu, Mali holds ancient manuscripts that his family owns in his home  After Islamic militants launched a campaign to eradicate historic vestiges of a medieval Muslim civilization that they deemed un-Islamic, international scholars feared the worst: that  the militants had torched the Ahmed Baba Institute, home to 30,000 priceless items of scholarship dating back to the 13th century...But many volumes may have escaped destruction by being hidden from fundamentalist forces that seized the north last year.  ..  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Muna, wearing white flowered dress, sits in a classroom in the  village of Intedeyne March 15, 2007.    the challenge to educate children in Mali still exists and particularly for girls. Female literacy rates never reach even 50 percent of male literacy rates. Mali has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line in any country in the world. Ninety percent of Malians survive on less than two dollars a day.
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  • Children memorize the Koran on tablets in the early morning chill at a Koranic School in Timbuktu, Mali March 11, 2007.
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  • Gao, Mali is located on the River Niger southeast of Timbuktu. in 2012, Gao was captured from Malian government forces by National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine rebels.  The MNLA lost control to Islamist militias after the Battle of Gao in June 2012. On January 26, 2013, the city was recaptured by French military .
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  • Abdel Kader Haidara looks at his family's ancient manuscripts that he is trying to preserve in his home March 6, 2007. In the past few years, with funding from different organizations including the Ford Foundation, thousands of the manscripts are being recovered, stored, preserved and studied. Sadly, many of them have been lost or severley damaged but for those that remain it is a maginificent reminder of Africa's literary history.  (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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  • Children memorize the Koran on tablets in the early morning chill at a Koranic School in Timbuktu, Mali March 11, 2007.
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  • Arab Moors  who live in the remote town of Boujbeja struggle to survive in the harsh desert. "Boujbeja" means the luck of the desert but after a severe drought in 1966, they have been fighting the constant push of the sands and must dig 70 meters under ground to get water. Despite these difficult living conditions, the villagers do not want to leave and like the peace they enjoy from the rest of the world. The leader of the villager, Cheik Bey, is trying to preserve ancient manuscripts from his family. Sadly, many of them have been lost or severley damaged but for those that remain it is a magnificent reminder of Africa's literary history.  (Photo by Ami Vitale),
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  • Children memorize the Koran on tablets in the early morning chill at a Koranic School in Timbuktu, Mali March 11, 2007.
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  • This is one of the villages that was established after the Moroccans threatened to kill anyone possessing manuscripts in Timbuktu. The Kati family escaped and came to this place along the Niger river and has been living here since. Recently, a library was established in Timbuktu and the hidden manuscripts were brought back to be catalogued and preserved in the Fondo Kati Library.
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