This episode is a tribute to the colossal work of the curators of this new Ahmed Baba Centre, and to president Thabo Mbeki, who led and financed this manuscript rehabilitation works. Those silent African heroes make even more realistic this Sudanese proverb which is popular in the whole of West Africa, quote "Salt comes from the North, gold comes from the South, silver comes from the country of the whites, but the word of God, scholar things, and pretty tales, you can only find them in Timbuktu.