Was the German explorer, Heinrich Barth on his way to Timbuktu but when he heard about Gao he chose rather to go there, as he heard that it was the capital of a powerful empire?
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Fluent in Arabic and already a veteran of several years' Middle East and northern Africa travel experience, Barth was teaching in Berlin in 1849 when he was offered the chance to join a British government-sponsored expedition aimed at establishing commercial contacts and suppressing the slave trade in the area around ..
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