Hawa Touré: The guardian of the manuscripts of Timbuktu Hawa Touré, Director of the Kati Fund, the largest private library in Timbuktu, has taken refuge with relatives in Bamako. She managed to take a dozen documents that are now kept in a secret location. Nearly 13,000 documents were scattered amongst the neighbors to protect them from the Islamists. A strategy already used 4 times in history to save these documents dated back to the fifteenth century. Images and soundbites of Hawa Touré and her family in Bamako.