Vote for Timbuktu as New Seven Wonder

A few minutes ago, I saw on Al Jazeera English that an organization known as “NewOpenWorld Foundation” is in the process of announcing a New Seven Wonders of world come 7th July 2007 (07.07.2007). Obviously, I got to know about this too late.

Reasons given for the need to create new Seven Wonders was that, the current ones are all gone with the exception of the pyramids of Giza. Thus, only few people could remember them.

Interestingly, Timbuktu in Mali is the only site in Africa that made it to the final 21. What can I say? I can only entreat you to vote for Timbuktu because I am an African in Africa. I have some symbiosis with Timbuktu, than any other site listed on their website.

According to the Timbuktu entry on their website:

In the 12th century, Timbuktu was at the crossroads of the four most important caravan paths supplying the Arab world, which then spanned from the Middle East all the way to Spain. The accumulation of wealth made it one of the wealthiest places on earth at the time. This allowed one of the first universities in the history of humankind to be established– the celebrated Islamic university called the Koranic Sankore, where 20,000 students studied law, medicine, rhetoric, etc. Today, it remains with us as a powerful myth and, in this way, resembles another Ancient Wonder,
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
In short – vote for Timbuktu,
because it stands for
– Intellect & Mysticism!

Need I say more? Vote here.