![]() Its great Djinguereber Mosque is about the size of the Great Mosque of Cordoba, which had a six-figure population during at least some of the Middle Ages. Medieval Timbuktu-it was not attacked by any “neighboring village”. I found myself, for the first time, understanding the person who was struck from the Martin Skrelli jury pool for saying that he could not give Skrelli a fair trial because he had “disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan”. ![]() ![]() I nearly lost it when the facilitator said, of the inhabitants of the medieval African city of Timbuktu, something like: they held learning so dear that, when attacked by a neighboring village, they would bury and hide their books before they went out to arm themselves. I have been thinking for a while about why I nearly lost it at the “Decolonizing the Syllabus” zoom seminar. ![]()
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