Timbuktu, however, is a little trickier. To visit this iconic place, you will need to travel to the edge of the Sahara in West Africa. Years ago, it was an important city and was associated with ...

For centuries, manuscripts such as these remained some of Africa's best-kept secrets. Western explorers who passed through Timbuktu in the early 1800s, some disguised as Muslim pilgrims ...

Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other madrasas, Timbuktu was an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the propagation of Islam throughout Africa in the 15th and ...