Writing Timbuktu

The long overlooked, centuries-long, culture of the book in West AfricaPrinted books did not reach West Africa until the early twentieth century. And yet, between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries, literate and curious readers throughout the region found books to readbooks that were written and copied by hand. In Writing Timbuktu, Shamil Jeppie offers a history of the book as a handwritten, ha...