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Kai Mora is an Africanist, historian and writer based in New York. She is the Senior Fellow at the African History Project and a graduate student at the City College of New York.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, Timbuktu, located in Mali, served as a major intellectual hub of Islamic civilization.
Queen Amanirenas commanded soldiers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush and successfully resisted Roman rule.