RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - timbuktu and french

' to preserve the library for posterity.' Mensah


..... and place it in their museums, libraries, holdings of art dealers and private hands to
make vast amounts of money from it, until the end of time.


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
www.africahistory.net
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From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edward Mensah [dehasnem@uic.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:43 PM
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Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - timbuktu and french

" Why did the French take away to France the entire library of Umar Tall
on conquest in the 19th century?" For better or worse, to preserve the
library for posterity. They could have burned it, you know? But that will
not preserve the manuscripts for posterity. I am not sure that if Kumasi
had an ancient library the Brits would have burned it. They probably would
have looted the manuscripts and torched the city.

Kwaku Mensah
Chicago

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[mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Emeagwali, Gloria
(History)
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 1:47 PM
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Why did the British torch conquered regions. I believe part of the Asante
empire is an example.
Too busy now to check the details. Maybe Kwabena can correct me here.

Why did the Portuguese torch parts of the Swahili region when they moved
in?


Why did the French take away to France the entire library of
Umar Tall on conquest in the 19th century?


Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Prof. of History & African Studies
History Department
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain
CT 06050
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[usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cornelius Hamelberg
[corneliushamelberg@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:17 AM
To: USA Africa Dialogue Series
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - timbuktu and french

Come on Mwalimu Adepoju !

I could give you a very long list ,let us strat with this simple one :

Ask Alhaji Sheikh Bangura to answer this one:

What is Boko Haram's rationale for torching churches.?

http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/

On 29 Jan, 01:16, OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU <tva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is their rationale for destroying the manuscripts?
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> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:12 PM, kenneth harrow <har...@msu.edu> wrote:
> > read this and weep
> > the 'islamists' have signed their departure from timbuktu by setting
fire
> > on to the 1000 yr old mss.
> > abdul, the people who are dancing in the street of gao are not sorry to
> > see them go. neither are the people of timbuktu weeping, they are
> > celebrating.
> > but the damage they have done to islamic manuscripts and mosques will be
> > forever.
> > \as scholars we should all feel bereft by this sad report in the
> > washington post
> > ken
> > **
>
> >http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/malian-town-of-gao-celebra...
>
> > SEVARE, Mali - Malian soldiers entered the city of Timbuktu on Monday
> > after al-Qaida-linked militants fled into the desert having set ablaze a
> > library that held thousands of ancient manuscripts ablaze.
>
> > French Col. Thierry Burkhard, the chief military spokesman in Paris,
said
> > that there had been no combat with the Islamists who have ruled Timbuktu
> > for nearly 10 months, but that the forces did not yet control the town
as
> > of Monday afternoon.
> > **
>
> > Sudarsan Raghavan NOV 30
>
> > Northern Mali, one of the richest reservoirs of Music in Africa, grows
> > silent as musicians flee the hard-line edicts of Islamists now in power.
> > **
>
> > Burkhard said French paratroopers landed north of the city as ground
> > forces headed up from the south.
>
> > "The helicopters have been decisive," he said, describing how they aided
> > the ground forces who came from the south as French paratroopers landed
> > north of the city.
>
> > News of their arrival came just hours after Timbuktu's mayor confirmed
> > that the fleeing Islamists had in earlier days torched ancient
manuscripts
> > in Timbuktu, long revered as a center of Islamic learning.
>
> > The militants had occupied Timbuktu for almost 10 months, imposing the
> > strict Islamic version of Shariah, or religious law, across northern
Mali
> > while carrying out amputations and public executions.
>
> > "In the heart of people from northern Mali, it's a relief - freedom
> > finally," said Cheick Sormoye, a Timbuktu resident who fled to Bamako,
the
> > capital.
>
> > The French said Mali's weak military must finish the job of securing
> > Timbuktu. But they have generally fared poorly in combat, often
retreating
> > in panic in the face of well-armed and battle-hardened Islamists.
>
> > The French-led military operation against the Islamists, who seized the
> > northern half of Mali last year, began 17 days ago when the insurgents
> > encroached further toward the south.
>
> > It has scored several successes, but hard questions remain about how the
> > Mali government will hold the cities that have been wrested from the
> > Islamists, and whether there is the will and the ability to chase them
into
> > the Sahara which is home to many of these desert fighters.
>
> > On Saturday, French forces secured key installations in the northeastern
> > town of Gao. Then overnight Sunday troops secured the Timbuktu airport
> > without firing a shot.
>
> > Ground forces backed by French paratroopers and helicopters took control
> > of Timbuktu's airport and the roads leading to the town in an overnight
> > operation, a French military official said Monday.
>
> > "There was an operation on Timbuktu last night that allowed us to
control
> > access to the town," Col. Burkhard said Monday. "It's up to Malian
forces
> > to retake the town."
>
> > The mayor of Timbuktu said Monday that the Islamists had torched his
> > office as well as the Ahmed Baba institute - a library rich with
historical
> > documents - in an act of retaliation before they fled late last week
from
> > the city of mud-walled buildings.
>
> > "It's truly alarming that this has happened," Mayor Ousmane Halle told
The
> > Associated Press by telephone from Bamako. "They torched all the
important
> > ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography and science. It is
the
> > history of Timbuktu, of its people."
>
> > He said he didn't have further details as communications to the city
have
> > been cut off.
> > **
>
> > --
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> > ph. 517 803 8839har...@msu.edu
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