MALI BUILDS NEW CENTRAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY TO AID LEARNING AND PROTECT VALUABLE ISLAMIC TEXTS
April 23rd, 2023
A new Central University Library of Mali, serving higher education institutions across this Sahel and Sahara country, will house thousands of ancient Islamic texts, including some removed from Timbuktu in 2013, to save them from destruction at the hands of Islamist militants. They subsequently torched two libraries in the Malian desert city, but few texts were damaged – now many will be transferred to the new library, to be opened next August (2024), in the Mali capital Bamako. This West African Franc XOF9 billion (USD15 million) building will include ...
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