Part of our First Person series, where we invite writers to share personal stories. Of the world's 6,000-plus languages, half are expected to be extinct by the end of the century. I knew nothing about ...
As they say in Mali's Manding language, yiriba binna: a giant tree has fallen. Amadou Toumani Touré, who died in an Istanbul hospital on November 10th at age 72, is being warmly remembered in Mali as ...