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Peer reviewedClarke, John Henrik – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1977
From the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, the University of Sankore at Timbuctoo was the intellectual center of Africa. The life of Ahmed Baba, last chancellor of the university, is an example of the range and depth of West African intellectual activity before the colonial era. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: African Culture, African History, Educational History, Higher Education
