The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer

First part of book is good about gathering old Islamic documents held by families in and around Timbuktu, also some history of Mali. The rest of the book is the terrible influx of Jihadis and their eventual ouster by the French and restoration of manuscripts to museums in Timbuktu. However, it gave me no confidence about their safety. Overall not that interesting. Would love to learn more history of Timbuktu and more about early Arabic manuscripts. Some of these have been digitized.