Desert Libraries: A scribe in Mali | Africa Direct Documentary
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- čas přidán 13. 12. 2021
- Timbuktu is renowned for its ancient texts, which date back to when the Malian city was a vital scholastic centre over 500 years ago.
Boubacar Saddeck Najim is one of the few remaining copyists who painstakingly replicates these precious manuscripts for posterity. Some 300,000 documents are still held by a few old families in private collections.
Beïrey-Hou: Desert Libraries, by filmmaker Andrey S Diarra, delves into Najim’s world of crumbling pages, magnificent scripts, inaccessible collections, and some reluctant lenders.
Andrey S Diarra is a Malian producer and director. Since his first feature documentary Hamou-Béya (Sand Fishers) in 2012 won several international awards, he has produced more than 10 feature documentaries with African filmmakers, as well as approximately 50 films with various international NGOs in West Africa through his company DS Productions.
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I absolutely love Mali and have been intrigued since I was a small child about these Manuscripts. Ancient Mali and their beautiful music is a world treasure. These manuscripts are important to preserve for all of humanity. Thank you so much for this beautiful series on African culture and people. Amazing , Timbuktu is on the top of my bucket list❤️
Im intrigued by them also i hope that they will translate, transliterate, them from maghribi script arabic into english.
This man is a vigilant,
See how he's dedicating
His time to preserve this
Manuscripts
My protect and bless him
Now I know and understand the value of copyist. May Allah bless them and grant them an elevated place in Jannah.
Allahuma ameen
آمين
Amiin
I liked this short story. Mali Empire and Songhai Empire’s speak for themselves.
excellent journalism
back in the days when knowledge was shared and no intellectual properties, patents or any kind of licensing 😀😋
Blame your punk azz red neck daddy
The cinematography was fantastic. Wish I was smart enough to understand what that style was called. It was so relaxing to watch. Like you were an invisible observer on the daily comings And goings of someone.
@Degdeg thanks for that explanation 👍🏼
Beautiful Mali 🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱
Africa civilized the world
This is amazing. I couldn't stop watching.
Chapeau!
I need to experience the rich history of Mali soon. this was beautifully produced
Precious. Please cherish the knowledge. No book is made for fire.
Amazing. To be able to tell where from by style 🙂
For years they tried to tell us Africa do not have any written language..
"They" are traumatized by the Moors colonization of Iberia
Maybe the government in Mali should aid these dedicated preservers of knowledge by at least covering their material costs & have them make 2 copies of every text....1 to return to the "holding families" and a 2nd to go into a national library or archive so that it can be double-protected & maybe even reproduced into different languages to be shared with the world? Over time, Mali could slowly regain much of it's lost status as a world learning hub. It would be time consuming for sure but the end result would place Mali in a unique position on the academic "stage" per say & in the long run it may provide more stability and entice more people to travel there to study. Whichever route that they choose i wish them the best & i hope that they continue to preserve their past for future generations to come.
they are fighting a war right know, but soon
@@croixfadas they've been fighting a "war" for the last 40 years or so depending on who you talk to...if they can buy guns they can protect things
I agree. So much knowledge locked away.
Agreed! A good option would also be creating digitalized copies of these texts, so they also would be available on the internet in case anything bad happened to the physical originals.
the fathers of history, medicine, etc who are the Greekstole. All came to Africa for their knowledge. therefore, the Greeks copied the africans knowledge and made it their own. modern chemistry has so many ancient names that are no common to Europe who passed it off as their own.
We win you lose.
@@sforza209never say we win you lose because the losers eventually win. always take the best of both sides
you grow.
@@sforza209 😂 you lose. We have the infinite ability to create you can only copy. You can dress like a doctor but lack the mind / knowledge of a doctor . Eventually the fraudsters is always exposed
Lol thanks for the laugh. Enjoy being poor.
@@Deadassbruhfrfr enjoy destroying people’s culture because you can’t build your own.
Beautiful, I wish we could have heard a passage or two from these manuscripts
Maliba ❤️🌹❤️ my beloved Empire.
Fascinating
Very nice and inspiration.
Imagine how much knowledge are in those manuscripts, I wonder if they have anything on Mansa Musa.
Wow what a discipline 👏 level. Great man. Very rare.
Fantastic! Great work...
Can this be translated and disseminated to interested pan Africans black universities and diasporian Africans
Dream life and profession to me! I would love to be in Timbuktu and worship copying manuscripts ❤️! 🌞 It is pure art. I'm a woman though, so that might be a some sort of a social mentality problem. Unfortunately. Never say never, as they say! 😄
underrated
💯👍🏿💯
U will understand
Without South Africa, all those books will been gone for ever, Say thank you to Tambo Bekki
Can you elaborate ?
@@_sunfish South Africa under Bekki finiaced the restoration of all those liberies
@@mensilak oh ok, thanks for the info
@@mensilak many entities were involved in preserving these manuscripts, but i undersand you people like to sow seeds divisiveness. 🤣
@@fitawrarifitness6842 i am not a south African. Let be honest!
Anyone knows the name of the song/tune playing in the background at the beginning of the video?
I knew a little about Timbuktu since childhood after reading Donald Duck comics.
Why he's doing copy of these manuscripts?
It should be typed in computer and print , so it'll be saved forever,
He needs computer education, which fortunately didn't get, else he would have gone to Europe and work on website making for companies.
There is a separate project of digitizing the manuscripts. He is a traditional copier.
North Mali/Azawad majority of them still spoke Arabic just like in Sudan and Chad. with Taureg and Songhay language together.
Dune
I got a copy machine..
He looks like the, "WE WUZ KANGZ" guy. 🤔🤔🤔😂😂😂
U r a bad person. I hope you remember that.
@@evano5635 you're*
Another idiot 😂
Cope
Uhhhhhhhh.... thats probably because Malian kings looked like that?