Blogs in July 2020

The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu 13th July 2020

London, 1788: a group of British gentlemen—geographers, scholars, politicians, humanitarians, and traders—decide it is time to solve the mysteries of Africa’s unknown interior regions. Inspired by the Enlightenment quest for knowledge, they consider it a slur on the age...

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