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Timbuktu Educational Foundation Gathers Dignitaries and Top African Scholars
to Launch Preservation Campaign for Ancient African Texts
(Oakland, CA)- September 4, 2002. - Musa Baldé, CEO of the Timbuktu Educational Foundation (TEF) is proud to announce the launching of their "Preserve-A-Manuscript" campaign with "Reviving the Past for Future Success”, a fundraising dinner, on Saturday, September 14, 2002 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm in the Rotunda Building located at 300 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland. Tickets are $100.00; RSVP by September 10, 2002. Registration can be done on the website (www.timbuktufoundation.org). Future dinners will be held in other cities including Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Washington, DC during 2003.
TEF’s mission is to restore and preserve over 700,000 manuscripts of early African scholars dating back to the 9th Century. These manuscripts are in the Timbuktu University Library in Mali. These artifacts helped lay a foundation for early civilization, including Western Civilization. They cover many subjects including mathematics, language, physics, medicine, astronomy, geography, government development and jurisprudence.
TEF is committed to presenting this cultural legacy through educational programs and exhibitions in the United States and throughout the world.
At 6 PM there will be a reception with the Ambassador of Mali, Cheick Omar Diarrah. The dinner’s keynote speaker will be Imam W. Deen Mohammed of the Muslim American Society.
Other speakers that evening will be internationally known scholars Dr. Joyce King, Provost of Spelman College, Dr. Hassimi Maiga, Director of Research, University of Mali, Dr. Wade Nobles, Executive Director of the Institute for Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture, and Dr. Sulayman Nyang, Head of African Studies, Howard University.
New Africa Drummers, a youth group from the Clara Mohammed School, Kourre player Mamadou Sou and spoken word group, Calligraphy of Thought, will provide entertainment throughout the evening.
For more information about the event, please contact the Timbuktu Educational Foundation office at (510) 748-9033 or visit www.timbuktufoundation.org for more information about the foundation.