From here to Timbuktu, American Odyssey

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The show American Odyssey has made its way to our African screens and with the military conspiracy and political plotting we are n for a few good weeks of cloak and dagger episodes. Timbuktu features as a place where captives are taken, tortured and killed and on hearing the name I almost immediately remembered my dad always saying it's as far from here as Timbucktu. This meant a long, long way away to a place of desolation. He served in Egypt during WWII and Timbuktu was one of the basis. Quite horrifically this place has new mention in American movies. It lies on the south edge of the Sahara Desert a small historical place in Mali. It seems there is always a war going on somewhere, even when we think we are at peace. Timbuktu prays for liberation, while it etches its sand with the blood of innocent lives . . . So the story goes. Have you seen American Odyssey?