Mauritania: Where The Sahara Desert Meets Ocean

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Mauritania: Where The Sahara Desert Meets Ocean


In human cultures in general, and perhaps particularly in Africa, the landscape is the first shrine of tradition. From the sand dunes of Mauritania to the currents of River Senegal, to the Lions of the Beninese savannah to the spirits of the forests of Gabon, this series explores the origin, the nature and the survival of deep links between…

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  1. I was a child in WWII and recognise aspects of people in the UK then than we don’t have now but somewhere like here does. Our lives were much simpler but also richer. Civilisation has made us more selfish, insulated and acquisitive. We are so much more comfortable on the whole but the warmth we had spontaneously had for each other is much harder to find now. Shame!

  2. South Africa sponsored the upkeep of one of the oldest libraries in the continent and preserve these manuscripts in Timbuktu only to be demolished and burnt to the ground by rebels.