What's Inside the Trunks

In April 2012 armed groups take Timbuktu. One librarian moves out of the city the manuscripts forty families have kept for centuries: six months of clandestine convoys, a thousand kilometres, a million dollars. The world applauds — then historians start counting, and find that almost everything told about this story is wrong, except the essential part.

Memory and redressJustice and trialsKnowledge and heritageMaliMHMamma HaïdaraAbdel Kader HaïdaraAhmed BabaMahmoud Zouber