Timbuktu is a town which has gripped the Western imagination. It sits around the Niger River, which obviously indicated dividing line between the sandy mountains of North Africa and the green, moist, rich lands of subtropical and tropical Africa, the legendary jungles we correlate with Congo along with a blazing sunlight.Timbuktu can be rooted deeply in the English language. Even young kids talk of Timbuktu from the sense of"away from where I'm now since it's likely to get."And a number of its a...