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The Empire of Mali

In Our Time

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Timbuktu - The Most We Know About It

After the Malian Empire, Timbuktu really developed into a scholarly town. The most we know about this city has a burgeoning place of scholarship coming from Leo Africanus. It was about 10,000 inhabitants who were under the Sengai Empire. Now it went up to 100,000 inhabitants probably.

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