Timbuktu: Recapturing the Wisdom and History of a Region

Since 2000, the Ford Foundation has supported the preservation of more than 700,000 ancient manuscripts in Timbuktu, Mali. Projects include providing proper storage environments and physical repair, translating the mostly Arabic texts and digitizing the documents to make them available for scholarly research. Learn more about this work and the foundation's commitment to honoring the worlds diverse cultures.

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• Timbuktu
• Mali
• West Africa
• Manuscripts
• Scribes
• Ancient Preservation
• Conservation Scholarship
• Ford Foundation
• Ami Vitale

[quantafunk]

Africans sold white slaves for thousands of years and eventually taught you how to be civilized. That is why your history is so short. Shave off a monkeys hair and his skin is white. Sorry monky, you have always had such thin lips. That is why China still will not let you into their country. All the tribes on the planet knows about you cave monkey and we call you barbarians (Barber-Arians).

[jamrock1ful]

No Black Africans have nooooooooooooooooooo History! Africans are dancing monkeys!! AHHrrrrrrr!! Noooo!! NEVER!!!  White Power!!

[lmarr07]

@rochillz Maximum Respect bruh.

[lmarr07]

@courtesy55 "rochillz" is correct. White people who may tell some truth will never give the full blown out story of significance about these topics. For now on, we cannot sugar coat the wrong doings of White/Euorpean scholars and explorers. I cant stand it when I see white people on t.v. talking about African Histories, they dont see it the way we do, they cant comprehend the emotion of it.

[courtesy55]

what do you mean by that? i suppose there is to be a another youtube clip talking about that part of africa, and if it doesnot then i think you should make a youtube clip about that, you can´t judge people for what history they brought up, i mean it´s at least better that they brought up something than nothing at all right?

[rochillz]

Even when Europeans tell some truth, they are speaking with 5 tongues lying! They tell you about west african manuscripts, but they don't mention ancient Egypt or Nubia. Those were Africans too. They there many scripts, the dogon, the Amharic, Nubian, ancient Egyptian scripts but you shit like Africans had no written language.