Treasures Of Timbuktu - Mali

[@unak78]

They were hidden. When the French colonized Mali, the families who were caretakers for the texts hid them in crates and buried them until independence.

[@Zarasha1]

unak78 Thank God. It would of been stolen. They were the smartest of Africans. The rest of Africa just put all on a plate for whites to take.

[@thecommunityofpeace6905]

The french would have stolen them and claimed the knowledge was french inventions

[@Psidawg]

@@thecommunityofpeace6905 no they wont, though they'd keep it in a museum/art galleriy & wont give it back to uncivilized people =]

[@thedevotedmuslimah]

@@Psidawg And who are these uncivilized people you speak of?

[@AXZJ104]

Have they translated and dated the documents yet.?

[@FreshD2008]

The Empire of Wagandu (Ghana) was established before the Arabs arrived and on their way to litteracy, having developed symbols. Wagandu had cities and urban centres. Even after Arabs arrived some elements of Juju (Vodoo) survived even with Islam. Now, The University of Sankoore was the third University in the world with 25,000 scholars at its peak. Asking if these scholars were black is like asking if the kangaroo lives in Australia. THIS WAS THE HEART OF WEST AFRICA....

[@mrmister1657]

They *NEED* to make copies of all those books and upload them to the internet, protect this knowledge its hundreds of years old don’t let it just rot

[@youkyumkim7734]

lol, they already did.

[@ant-asd]

@@youkyumkim7734 I think so. it's priceless.....

[@FreshD2008]

Dude... he spent so much gold he sent Egypt back in a recession 12 whole years! Yeah, He was ballin'

[@RdanglRd]

The Dogon still know all these things..Im glad that they kept all their secrets to themselves.

[@bxlunar]

Africans have been writing waaaaay before anyone. all religion and science was started in Africa. but what saddens me is that the brother in the blue agbada said that since the 11th century there was literacy. KMT started writing and accelerated mathematics. not the arabs.

[@iayyam]

three haters can't handle the truth... long live mama Africa!!

[@nunomartins2209]

What truth

[@iayyam]

@@nunomartins2209 THE truth...

[@iayyam]

@theray2006 Who has agreed that civilization started in the middle east? No research has proven that. What the evidence is showing is the FIRST civilization started in Africa...Egypt specifically and it was Black and African.

[@iayyam]

@Allah God since when? Did you move it?

[@messianic_scam]

the manuscript in Arabic so yah if you say so

[@thecommunityofpeace6905]

I wish they would translate and transcribe these manuscripts. Placing them in a digital format would preserve them forever and allow others, like me, the ability to read them

[@unak78]

West Africa needs to reunite and realize their potential. Rebuild the Mali, Ghana, and Songhai Empires of the past. Too many landlocked nations that can't feed or trade in Africa. Too many ethnic divisions. Unity is the only cure. That unity once made West Africa great.

[@shubhambansal9789]

unak78 all this came from India, Mali king bought them in a cage of gold which is looted by Britishers from India. Still Kerala temples has maximum amount of gold which it get by Selling his knowledge.

[@muhammaduusmanfodiyodanafr457]

ahahahah how will rebuild mali ghana and songhai empires when it"s almost the same empires

[@Zarasha1]

unak78 Kwame Nkrumah wanted to unite Africa and europeans got him assassinated.

[@salimatasimaga9878]

great idea. wow I am from mali and living in USA. great great idea

[@youkyumkim7734]

@@shubhambansal9789 where did u get that from?

[@ronqie]

...about time, i really hope all of these gets out to everyone in the world. Enough of western educational institution forcing pupils of every background to learn about the Roman and Greek cultures, gods and accomplishments. The pupils need to have a choice as to what to learn. We need to know about Africa's influence and contribution to the world in the past and today.

[@ManeOuattara]

@smoothnubian - The majority of these racist individuals in this forum don't even bother to study history before making a comment about it. The Mande' people who built the Ancient Malian empire were my ancestors, and I know a great deal about our history. Many of the scrolls that are described as being written in Arabic, are in fact written in Mande' (Manden ka), or Dogo (the original language of the Mani people), using the Arabic alphabet only, but not the language its self.

[@karawang1000]

Those treasures should be reserve in glass enclosure, great civilizations

[@rey9883]

Contrary to what this jerk theSOASstudent is saying, the greatest thing about African scholarship is knowing not only that it is original but that our ancestors genuinely sought knowledge and distributed it peacefully and amicably. we should be proud of that intellectual heritage alone as other nations tended to force ideals upon others. the centers at Ra'Kedet and Timbuktu were genuine centers for learning while other ancient Universities held agendas such as Greeks' ethnocentric Akademia.

[@GGLebo23]

Omg the people of Timbuktu WERE NOT ARAB. They did not gain ALL of their knowledge from Arabs either. Trading goes back and forth. That is including goods AND brains. The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu watch?v=iYMkTxNQGGU This is also a good documentary.

[@TheSanityInspector]

Fascinating doco.

[@babulsarwar3714]

Amazing! Great Mali, Timbuktu.

[@ManeOuattara]

@jamrock1ful - cont... Also, not one single non-Mande person ever ruled the Ancient Malian Empire. The only reason they converted to Islam was to expand trade into North Africa. The reason they wrote many of their scrolls in Arabic, was because that was the language of the quran, and was more widely known by the various groups living in the Empire. All of the various Mande groups had their own Poro/Sande-related writing systems though. Also, they were never slaves to any Arabs. That's insane.

[@rey9883]

Lets not even mention, the library at Ra Kedet, that Julius Caesar destroyed.. We African peoples could have has a period of enlightenment millennia before the European renaissance period. regardless, seeing this video brings great joy as now we can study from our own text rather than texts that have been prepared for us from outsiders.

[@coroscoredem]

Ok, now i understand. thank you for this info

[@shango1963]

@courtesy55 Exactly correct. It's a clear distortion that claims Malian culture was Arab/Islamic based; it was not; the common people did not celebrate it as a regular practice, and, as ancestor 's Chiek Anta Diop and Ivan Van Sertima have asserted, was only used by the government, then, for trade purposes (Arabs controlled most of the trade routes which dealt with the transfer of goods from Africa, Europe and Asia then).

[@ManeOuattara]

@smoothnubian - cont... A modern equivalent of this would be how we English speakers can recognize most or all of the letters used in the Spanish, French, etc., written languages, but cannot necessarily understand the words formed, using those letters that we recognize. In addition, many of the scrolls in Timbuktu and other places in Mali, were written in indigenous scripts. There are many written languages indigenous to Africa: Adinkra, Tifingh, Ethiopic, etc., some people are just uneducated.

[@MrExposethematrix]

Who gave this thumbs down? I thought the KKK was out of business.

[@AprilynCanete]

they should seek help to conserve and restore it.. and digitize for future scholars to study

[@blueiguy1]

@mbukukanyau Understanding the past is key to the know how of present day Africans. The question "what have we to show know?" Defeats the purpose of the Documentary .Each and every country needs to study its history in order to understand the growth that it can have.

[@RdanglRd]

That man just made me mad. The man said,"No these books are his family history." An then just gone snatch them out his hand.

[@gracelynpascall1177]

Sweet mother Africa 💪❣️❣️🙏❣️💙💙💙

[@lionzion22]

@FreshD2008 The term "arab" is loosely defined. Mali and Timbuctoo is Sahelian in culture. Namely Mande, Fulani, Songhai, Amazigh, and Hausa. Even the script is a modified Arabic for those languages called Ajami.

[@arivas713]

this is cool stuff. Africa has a unique history of it's own, arguably influenced by Islam but not anymore than Northern Europe is influenced by the ancient Greeks and Romans. It's cool to see that this did not go the way of the dodo, if Africa would have any chance to re-find it's past greatness, it is only through re-discovering it's past and trying to revive it's this culture--not some faux-european derived culture. i'm not African but i find this hella is cool.

[@quintonmiller8266]

Are you crazy? This knowledge was way before Islam was even thought of. The real knowledge was given before the flood.

[@akramtobbieh8858]

arab, muslim and africian world should renovate and extend unverisity to traditional design. keep books in a safe and preserved where they dont worn out from environmental elements of the weather and reopened have staff and scholars teaching studrnt voming from all places . and town be built up to get people in to live there. if i had money I'll do that project. my back is architecture design .

[@nialcc]

Arab is not a race, it's a culture and a language... Arabic. Muslim is not a race, it's the name for those who follow the Islamic religion. Only African is a race, thus Africans can be Arab and/or Muslim.

[@kareemtheeb1478]

@@nialcc man we are a race❤🇯🇴❤🇯🇴.

[@nialcc]

@@kareemtheeb1478 - Seriously? You don't know what you are? That's sad as hell. www.reference.com/world-view/race-arabs-belong-68c41db464f61d2d I hate Wikipedia but here you go... "Before the expansion of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 C.E.), "Arab" referred to any of the largely nomadic and settled Semitic people from the Arabian Peninsula, Syrian Desert, and North and Lower Mesopotamia.Today, "Arab" refers to a large number of people whose native regions form the Arab world due to the spread of Arabic language throughout the region during the early Muslim conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries and the subsequent Arab-ization of indigenous populations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs So sad.... maybe you need to look up the word race. That might help.

[@kareemtheeb1478]

@@nialcc and iraq and the levant were mostly arabs before islam. The nabateans,ghasasinid,lakhmid,palmyrian,kindah and more were Arab kingdoms in the levant and iraq before islam. Your christian friendly people invaded them and killed them. May allah bless all muslims and all Arabs🇯🇴❤🇾🇪❤🇹🇷❤🇲🇨❤🇲🇾❤🇲🇦❤🇦🇫❤🇵🇰❤🇵🇸❤🇮🇶❤.

[@bussmove]

egytpian history is far older and they show nubian black existed in ancient china and they found bones,painting and statues to prove it,

[@KUDGHAT1]

Egypt not that rich though past 1000 yrs..... so learn more n relax

[@iayyam]

@theray2006 this is utter nonsense... the first civilization in the world was in Egypt and it was black and African.

[@bussmove]

egyptain teachers htought in all these places,and the great european greeks romans etc came to learn in egypt then too the knowledge to europe,look at socrates,plato,phytagarous,jesus, moses,and egypt is african and in the middle east.

[@ManeOuattara]

@jamrock1ful - Timbuktu was a Tuareg-Berber seasonal encampment that was annexed by Mansa Musa (a Mande' King) and made part of the Ancient Malian Empire. Immediately following his annexation of Timbuktu, Mansa Musa ordered the building of a palace, universities, and mosques, and sent hundreds, if not thousands of scholars to teach and live there. Arabs had nothing to do with it. You won't find a SINGLE historic reference to any Arabs ever conquering, or controlling Ancient Mali.

[@kago500]

Timbuktu has nothing to do with Tuaregs/Berbers either. These people came South centuries later.

[@puppiemamo3319]

Why not make copies thereof for future library and archeological archiving!

[@xekul]

id love to go to mali but i dont want to run the risk of getting kidnapped and having my head cut off on the internet.

[@iayyam]

That doesn't happen in Africa

[@tikogal01]

instead of trying to live in the glories of their past, it would be more productive to move Timbuktu forward into the 21st century.

[@81ghostface]

Tapping back into our culture

[@jahguide010]

Ha!ha!theray2006 you dont know what you talking about humans and civilization started in africa whether you like it or not, it did.

[@tlove3440]

I wish i knew what it said

[@Swmn9]

@bussmove TRUE- THE FACT MOST AFRICAN AND OTHER POST COLONIAL COUNTRIES HAD TO BUY THEIR INDEPENDENCE FROM EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WHICH CREATED "THIRD WORLD DEBT" IS RARELY BROADCAST.

[@iayyam]

@FreshD2008 ....and Egypt started the first university.

[@KUDGHAT1]

Mali didn't atleast got exposed..... Nalanda Or egypt is the nxt resistance..... I'm more educated than most who excavated these 3...so reply accordingly !!

[@scotishjohn]

but what happend the way the books are scatered around look as if they were plunder hidden away

[@wangb13]

plus, my dear friend

[@PAAKWAMEPAA]

Timbuk-one Timbuk-two, Timbuk-three

[@lar5220]

@RoachBurger I do not no what you are saying first writing comes from Persia not Africa in the first place so does not matter who he was around it all came from Persia not in Africa or ethiopians who were chistion in the first place who got writing from the christions Arabs or persian and there not black

[@ManeOuattara]

i meant to write "what world are you referring to?"

[@FreshD2008]

Yeahhh, they're doing slightly better than Asian immigrants. I knew some Nigerians in school who could speak 4 languages fluently. They are obsessed with degrees. I just made the comment because on HateTube people like to down play Africa's achievements, especially sub-sahara. It's good to know West Africa started the 3rd University in the world (Sankore) and at one point was a true power base.

[@smoothnubian]

@m018264808888 u are so right, Africans had writing systems before the Arabs came along. I'm in grad school and I did a paper on the many writing systems of Africa.

[@smoothnubian]

@Allah God that was corny as hell. get somewhere, bitch

[@wangb13]

however, egyptian, hindu and chinese civilization started almost at the same time as that of the middle east.

[@messianic_scam]

why you stack them like that?!the books will wear out

[@sanjay3nme]

dude what about Indian Subcontinent's contribution....The cities here were at their pomp even as people were just learning to farm in Africa(Read as Egypt)

[@ManeOuattara]

cont... in addition to our own written history, Al-Bakri, Ibn Battuta, Al Umari, Ibn Khaldun, Leo Africanus, Shabeni, and many others, wrote first-hand accounts of Wagadu, Mali, and Songhai, and not one of them ever mentioned Arabs conquering, or ruling, Manden, at any point in its entire history. that includes after 640 AD when the Arabs arrived in the north. what monde are you refering to?

[@rey9883]

I don't know about china but East Africans definitely existed in southwest India.. go research the Indus Valley Civilization; there are still descended peoples in that region known as Dalits who have an affinity with Africans as being their ancestral peoples.

[@lar5220]

@TheHeruReturns arabs took islam civ to the blacks not the other way around

[@corneliavisser3091]

why am I here in mid 2020

[@iayyam]

@risbo3000 Lovely!!!

[@patrickjohnson7592]

There were some black Je2 Kingdoms, in West Africa.These were notbrought to light, by th3 British Colonial System.

[@KUDGHAT1]

Koran arabic scriptures came much after prakriti(pali) nalanda much older..... marco polo time.. .. what do u say afros ???

[@msg653]

Dipankar de sarkar Where are u from ?

[@lar5220]

@bussmove It all depends on how you look at it if you thnk being a stone age hunter gather with a life span of 30 is good then you are right but if not then you are wrong would not make much of a difference

[@bxlunar]

what is dark? but, you are in germany, and you must fit in i guess. if you can, please include dates. thank you.

[@coroscoredem]

Thats funny! that Egypt is a part of middle east and not Africa. How come they won the African cup of nations? and then you go to colour. It is not colour brown of black that make one an African. African belongs to black people, arabs, and all other people who are coloured or not but have established there presence and call Africa home. What colour was queen Nefertiti? Grey, brown, black or white? read your history

[@ManeOuattara]

you are incorrect. the arabs did not take over any of the Mande kingdoms (Pre Manden, Wagadu, Mali, Songhai). Timbuktu was originally a Tuareg encampment that was annexed by Mansa Musa, who was a king of Manden, and transformed into a place of scholarship. the written history of Manden is contained in scrolls similar to the ones in this video, in the languages of the old empires (Soninke', Mandinka, Bambara, Dogo, Tamashek, etc).

[@bxlunar]

where the arabs the ones who created literacy????? IF YOU SAY YES, THEN, I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU.

[@dfvfvrefwers48]

where was king mansa musa ,s family when the europeans came to mali

[@Africanladyy]

Already death

[@cgreenartpro1]

@lar5220 Google Ancient African Writings

[@sanjay3nme]

Dude i guess you are colour Blind :P, there's a differance between Black and Brown...we are brown and Krishna means Dark and not Black. And for your information Tamil Civilization and Indus valley Civilization was at its peak even as the Egyptians were learning to Farm :D And for God's sake no one paints themselves black...the ones who do belong to aghori sect, and they paint themselves for completely different reasons

[@RR-ri4vn]

Why is it written in Arabic alphabet and the Arabic influence in Timbuktu is huge Islam and Arabic influence played a vital role in Timbuktu 🤔🤔🤔🤫🤫

[@Obstone0]

Arabic was the main language of the mali empire. The arabics played a huge role in islamic scholarship since there was a university there. That being said, even though timbuktu was heavily infulenced by arabs, its greatness was mostly due to the mali people.

[@Africanladyy]

First Arabs were black...Saudia Arabia, Yemen and Oman used to be Africa with black population unitl they were invaded by the Turks and Assyrians, Later in history the British named the region Middle East...

[@bussmove]

they are still part of north africa but north africa lies in the middle east,africa is the continent but middle east is just an area which encompass some of asia,europe and africa and ancient afrcians were nubian blacks,but the invaders were muslim of different complexion thats why there are arabs there also

[@jamesmarkey5946]

Are there Christians in Timbuktu

[@RR-ri4vn]

No they don’t believe in white Jesus

[@dogons2k12]

@mbukukanyau "Africans should stop re-living their past, what have we to show now?" You as an AFRICAN should be ashamed to UTTER such succinct statements. Its because of that type of mentality of not knowing your history that a foreigner would write their version of YOUR OWN history that they see fit. WAKE UP DUDE

[@bxlunar]

prove that. lets see your chronology sanjay3nme.the anu were before that. the scorpion king was anu. read cheik anta diop. he is widely accepted. you will see the facts. i am aware that the buddist OM is 786, the most holiest number for the muslim. but why do the faces of buddah and angor wat look black? why do some indians have celebrations where they paint themselves black? is khrishna in sanskrit mean black? did egyptians go to asia and set up kingdoms? yes they did. look at your features...

[@wangb13]

"NON-of the nations you stated are african (I would still say the middle east is the first land of civilization BY FAR)" what do you mean? are you trying to say that i think chinese is african?????? tell you what, you better make you sure you know what i'm talking about before you started making a fuss.

[@utubeelliott]

And this dingus handles it like frozen meat from costco

[@FreshD2008]

Arab as in culture, not nationality.

[@Wonderhorse9006]

dis sucks doe

[@wangb13]

all the basic sicences in the WORLD were invented in samaria? what about the chinese civilization? lol

[@KUDGHAT1]

Yes knowledge came from ancient sumeria mesopotemia and china europe was there but they learnt n started blabbing America was just like australia...... he he sparsely populated by apes..... what about indus ?? I know china gave systematic cultivation paper explosives etc... Mesopotamia gave astrology decimal point bla bla.... egypt gave heliograph astrology magic....... India gave ZERO....... so we claim nalanda to be the oldest..... what do u say with reference. ..... everyone needs to know !! Very important for kids or they shall keep dying for Jesus mohammed and hindu gods rather than for science n logic and peace.... think it's high time.... always remember u go to a doctor when sick politics might not be helpful that moment

[@lewenholland1230]

Junk in

[@FreshD2008]

India innnovated not doubt. They contributed to the sciences, had the first University, etc. Just giving Mali its props... It had the 3rd University in recorded history... The largest library since Alexandria in its heyday

[@quintonmiller8266]

Naw.

[@joshuakim7618]

I know how you feel >_

[@NURJMUHAMMAD19]

Bkessed people to have knowledge of quranic science.

[@cytkl]

His Story of lying to hind Blacks ancient civilization.

[@GeorgeHowell]

burnt.

[@CypressItalian]

why are these men keeping these books in crates and touching them with bare hands ? are they even pretending to preserve this stuff ? books at the corner library are taken better care of.

[@cytkl]

So the Whites can Alter them???

[@wangb13]

just look at the africans today, using the languages their colonizer had left them, living within the borders their colonizers had drawn...cant the african 'civilizations' at least use their own languages? that's the least some which could be counted as civilization could do. i did like to ask, dont the african 'civilizations' have anything contributing to the developements of the human society at all besides their rich mineral resources?

[@badukwame]

These unfortunately weren't Africa's. These were Slave masters and Islamic conquerors heritage.

[@badukwame]

@@objectoriented3049 How can you pride yourself with some foreign archives or manuscripts that are completely not part of your original culture and traditions? These are not Ours they are Arabs even if Mansa Musa built it.

[@Buurba_Jolof]

@@badukwame FALSE. Was Mansa Musa arab? Was Sundjata Keïta arab? Was Ahmad Baba arab? Was Muhammad Bagayogo arab? Was Idriss Alooma arab?

[@badukwame]

@@Buurba_Jolof Oh boy! Exact reaction of our mentally blocked families. Read me well. I said "even if...." by the way, did you study Sundiata Keita? Go find out how he fought Sumanguru Kante and conquered the empire. Be proud of your origine not someone's borrowed culture and tradition.

[@Buurba_Jolof]

@@badukwame You're verry funny 🤣🤣🤣

[@Africanladyy]

​​​​​@@badukwame First Arabs were black. Middle East used to be a part of Africa. Saudia Arabia, Oman and Yemen was black, until they were invaded by Turks and Assyrians... Go learn real history......

[@instituuttarbiya8573]

Almoravide brought Islam to timbukto