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Africa's archives were burned. I built a laptop altar for the one that's left.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine What I Built In January 2013, as militants fled Timbuktu, they set fire to 4,202 manuscripts at the Ahmed Baba Institute. Some were centuries old, on mathematics and science. The loss was real, but it could have been far worse. For months before, librarians and families had been moving the collections out in metal trunks, under crates of vegetables, by car, cart and canoe. Roughly 300,000 manuscripts reached safety in Bamako. Records were also destroyed on purpose in my part of the world. Before ma

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