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Shamil Jeppie

Shamil Jeppie is a historian at the University of Cape Town and the director of the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project that researches the African tradition of manuscripts. 

 

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  • On the floor of a room are scattered many papers and documents. A man with a newspaper under his arm looks at the destruction.
    Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images

    Books | Cultural history

    Burning the books

    Libraries, archives and manuscripts: ever since they have existed, they have also been at risk. Librarian Richard Ovenden has written a history of their destruction

    01/07/2022

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