Well there we go with the avalanche of personal attacks, my arguments are racist idiotic etc but lets face it - I do know that Alexandria your first  mention is a perfect example of how culture and knowledge spread across the planet having first been colonised by Greeks, then the Arabs and even the Turks before the British. Timbuktu - also a product of Arab colonialisation and mentioned as an ancient example before Fort Hare South Africa and Makerere Uganda under British colonialisation 1916.