Black History Month Week 4 (a month late)

Black History Month is over but I needed to get in one last post, although late. If you remember as a child there were cartoons about this mystical and rich place with the funny name called Timbuktu. Well it's a real place. It was for centuries the center of learning for the African Muslim empire. Europe had Athens, Africa had Timbuktu. It is well worth the read to study the different universities and academia that were there. It is located in Mali on the Niger river, currently inhabited by Songhay, Tuareg, Fulani, and Mande people. It had one of the first universities in the world and a written tradition for Africa. Manuscripts have been found that contain writings on astronomy, music, botany, law, sciences, and history. All of this on what Europeans once called the dark continent. African Americans come from a rich, ancient history. We should acknowledge that we weren't just made for sports and entertainment. We should embrace our diversity.