Witness - Timbuktu scribes - Jan 4 2009 - Part 1

Once Timbuktu was known as the intellectual centre for the propagation of Islamic teachings. Now the'city of knowledge' is witnessing a renaissance.

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[LadyLibraNMore]

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

THEY WERE SO CLEVER! I WOULDN'T HAVE EXPECTED ANYTHING LESS FROM THEM! They kept the manuscripts hidden until it was safe to reintroduce them to the world. Finally the truth will come out ...

[CityofDestiny]

This is such a wonderful find! The history of the great nations of Africa needs to be understood. Without this history, the country and its contributions are deemed insignificant by other nations that present their own interpretation of historic events.

I am very happy to hear about the outpouring of support for the purpose of preserving these manuscripts.

The great countries in Africa were not all empoverished, nor were they insignificant.

We now can learn of their contributions!

[StarsManny]

I thumbed it down because they insisted on playing music all over it. Annoying.

[dogons2k12]

@MrMcGuire1000

"Africa would be far worse than it now is if it were not for Western medicine, science, technology, knowledge, education, agriculture, engineering, etc."

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­­hahahahahaha

right TYPICAL colonial era KINDERGARTEN education.

So not only where BLACK MUSLIMS attracting scholars worldwide but also colonized and Enslaved Spain, Portugal, France & Sicily for 700 years.

watch?v=iA5Foy0uLAU

LMAOF

STOP watching the HISTORY CHANNEL & READ A BOOK

LMAOF

[ureallysuckglobes]

@zamboka Take that "Israelite" shit somewhere else. You crackpots have nothing better to do than usurp other people's history. Ironically, in this case you're usurping black african history which is your own but because you're too ignorant full of SELF HATE to admit it. You lot are some of the most pathetic I've ever seen.

[zamboka]

@zamboka Psa 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: Psa 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Psa 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Psa 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

[zamboka]

We know Timbuktu was built by Israelites some of them coverted to Islam that's why the damn so called white man and the Africans burnt the books how convient that it fall around the slave trade..."get ride of the evidence".Psa 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. Psa 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

[jriccha]

All the mutha fuckin languages of the world ain't nothin but black ass languages!!!! damn i mean white ass mutha fuckas and anybody else who are not black( including mulattos,indians,and who the hell else ever) should just realize that there time and place on earth has been nothing but play play fo' dem. its like dey asses trying to play "house" like kids do when dey try to mark their mommy and daddy, cause black people are the mommy and daddy of the world and nobody else can live up to that

[lionzion22]

@nzingachronicles

This is faulty and rediculous reasoning. Right now, you are using a Latin alphabet to write in English and use Arabic numerals for numbers. These manuscripts in Timbuctoo are no different. They used Arabic script to write in Arabic, Hausa, Fulani, Soninke, Bambara, Tamasheq and so on. There are also a multitude of more recent African scripts all over the continent.

You can even say Arabic is African to begin with if you understand history and geography.

[okuomose1]

what language were the scripts written in?

[neteraset9]

This restoration project will be excellent for Mali's Tourism as well by helping the economy.

[jamrock1ful]

Why are the Europeans and the Arabs supporting this i thought they are against Africans having a history.