By the Middle Ages… the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: SÂDI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, ‘Tarikh 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
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