The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu Part 1

Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans.

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[BahreNeGash]

@sunset002007

If ONCE you admitted Blacks have history,,, Do blacks NEED your approval seal to tell their history the way they know it best or they have to succumb to Europeans lecturing Africans, their own African history?

What makes the Europeans or Americans ENTITLED to preach & lecture to Africans?

What makes your stories about Africans more AUTHENTIC than the Africans telling their own history?

When will your "WE KNOW IT FOR YOU" characters ends?

[wooja54]

Please BBC don't compare Africa to Europe. Africa has had three Golden periods, and many more empires than Europe.Thanks

[1treim1]

the noth african muslim moors distroyed timbuktu and started slavery how biased is this just cuz black people are talking i bet a silver doller they dnt even mention the black hebrews that were there 1st

[757CitiesReppa]

@shortydeemac take that pale Arabs cock out ya mouth nigga, get real.

[42012jburnna]

@xlrprettygirl88 Those dashing Islamic moors ran through Afrika slaughtering everyone that didn't convert and also made treaties with the D-EVILS that put the Hebrews on slaves ships....how "sexy" is that?

[xlrprettygirl88]

All these black people seen here in this documentary are the decendents of the moors. That is why they are dressed in muslim clothing because they were the "arabs" that invaded spain and many parts of europe. The moors used islam as a political party to give the europeans a means of meaning to the purpose of their conquest towards them. The moors were very smart...and dare i say...very sexy as well, it was easy for europeans to fall for them they were simply just dashing...

[TheDervish1971]

Wow

[iayyam]

@911sanitarium Have you ever heard of a place called EGYPT??

[TheArcher85]

I may be wrong for saying this but but fuck it, she got some nice ass tits.

[TheoGregoire]

@911sanitarium May I ask what you consider the Egyptian period, and their pyramids, to be, a trip to the job centre?

The civilisations you mention are not a patch on the Egyptian one. and just for the record the African continent gave the world writing, books, medicine, maths, universities, ad infinitum....No offence taken. ;)

[911sanitarium]

I dont want to be offensive but,yes blacks have history and its good that they embrace it and are proud hope more of them discover this. But sticking to the facts blacks have never really had an adcanced ancient civilization like the aztecs mayas the romans the ancient greeks.

[communipaw2009]

@BOSSCLASSMUSIC no it was islam that destory it