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The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscript Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa ‎ Ixia Press and fervently religious mother--his teammateDuring the last two decades, the (re )discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of sub Saharan Africa has questioned the long standing approach of Africa as a continent only characterized by orality and legitimately assigned to the continent the status of a civilization of written literacy. However, most of the existing studies mainly aim at serving literary and historical purposes, and focus only on the textual dimension of the