State of Intrigue, the title selected by Tayiru Banbera and David Conrad for recounting the Epic of Ségou, has perhaps never been more apt. David Easterbrook at Northwestern forwarded an appeal for preservation of the manuscripts in Timbuktu to the ALC list yesterday.
Baba Mamadi Diané’s map of Guinea in N’ko script was posted earlier on this site; he also produced one for Mali:
For reference, an unofficial English translation of the declaration of independence of Azawad (ⴰⵣⴰⵓⴰⴷ), with a referring link to the original in French, can be found here.
Cataloging Africana 