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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.
Queen Amanirenas commanded soldiers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush and successfully resisted Roman rule.
During the 15th and 16th centuries, Timbuktu, located in Mali, served as a major intellectual hub of Islamic civilization.