trivium

By the Middle Ages_ the introduction of the Trivium was well-known: S_DI, an educated black from Tombouctou, author of the well-known work entitled, __arikh es-Soudan_ cites amongst the subjects that he mastered, logic, dialection, grammar, rhetoric, not to mention law and other disciplines...the long lists of subjects studied and the lettered African intellectuals who taught them at the University of Tombouctou_