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People & Ideas
Timbuktu: City of Scholars
Mosques, teachers and family libraries: how a town at the edge of the Sahara became a centre of learning, and how its manuscripts survived.
Exhibition · 11 min read
Liberia & Its PeoplesDraft
The Loma of Liberia and Guinea
An introduction to the Loma (also written Lorma), a Mande-speaking people of the forest region, whose name inspired this institution.
Article · 7 min read
Art & Living TraditionsDraft
One Object: Country Cloth
Narrow strips of hand-woven cotton, sewn edge to edge. Follow one textile through its materials, makers, uses and meanings.
Article · 6 min read