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In African literature, Claude Wauthier has noted, ‘the town has become a symbol of contact with the West, with all its blemishes and attractions’ (Wauthier 1966, p. 168). It was not always so. In the European ‘Dark Ages’, Timbuktu in the West African Mali Empire, and now in Mali, just north of the Niger river, was a centre of commerce, religion and learning, with a thriving Arabic literature (Davidson 1959, pp. 91–92).
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James, L. (2016). Lagos. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54911-2_32
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