hopePlate 028 · Timbuktu, Mali

Timbuktu Sankore Madrasah

A university of mud and manuscripts, because a desert city was once a library.

14th c. · Songhai and Malian scholars · Africa

The chamber score

Jarabi

Mandé kora tradition · Mali

Mud-brick and gut strings are the same patience.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The Sankore campus, a monument of West African Islamic learning.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Timbuktu Sankore Madrasah through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Timbuktu Sankore Madrasah was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.