West African city famous as a centre of scholarship

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Black Death
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39This West African city became famous for scholarship and manuscripts under the Mali Empire.RECALL
Timbuktu.
Its libraries and learning networks connected the Sahara, West Africa, and the wider Islamic world.
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His journey to Mecca in the fourteenth century was recorded by writers across North Africa and the Middle East.
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