1,044 Quotes About Africa


  • Author Cheikh Anta Diop
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    Au moyen âge… L’introduction du trivium est attestée: SÂDI, un noir lettré de Tombouctou, auteur du célèbre ouvrage intitulé le ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cite parmi les matières qu’il avait maitrisées, la logique, la dialectique, la grammaire, la rhétorique, sans parler du droit et autres disciplines…les longues listes des matières étudiées et des savants ou lettrés africains qui les enseignent a l’Université de Tombouctou…

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  • Author Cheikh Anta Diop
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    By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: SÂDI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Tarikh es-Soudan’ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar, rhetoric, not to mention law and other disciplines...the long lists of subjects studied and the lettered African intellectuals who taught them at the University of Tombouctou…

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  • Author Anne M Chappel
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    There are many ways to die in Africa's Great Rift Valley. The vulture observed them all. The manner of life's ending did not concern her, or whether the dying creature was animals or human, black or white. Immaterial. Death comes. The vulture comes.

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