White Monk of Timbuctoo 1934

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1934. Because he would not write his own life story, the author presents this biography on the White Monk of Timbuctoo. The legendary White Monk of Timbuctoo, also known as Yakouba, was a renegade monk and renegade priest in the technical sense in that he unfrocked himself many years ago. He was an intriguing individual, married a black woman and begot thirty children. The author states that Yakouba was the only white man he knew that was happy, good and free. Yakouba presented the author with his notes, unpublished pages, sketches, ancient photographs and other information, they discussed and augmented the material, and it is found within this volume.