By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: SAUDI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Parish ES-Soudan’ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar, rhetoric, not to mention law and other disciplines...the long lists of subjects studied and the lettered African intellectuals who taught them at the University of Tombouctou…

— Cheikh Anta Diop

Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely...

— Cheikh Anta Diop

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.

— Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio