Only had heard of fables of Timbuktu….now this documentary has opened up a whole new real city in front of my eyes….salute for it, really heart warming and thought provoking
Thank you for this wonderful documentary. I remember whilst growing up in india , if you wanted to keep your destination a secret , one would say they are going to Timbuktu. What i saw is how beautiful and resilient the people are of Timbuktu. And what hauntingly beautiful voices and music . Hope there is peace and harmony there now .
I was waiting for this video on Timbuktu to be published. Well done guys, what an excellent documentary of a place we'd all forgotten about. That lady singer's voice, who left the city, was truly mesmerizing. The piece raised so many issues and questions about Black and white, Arabs and Africans, radicalism, and colonialism, still working through all of that!
There is no Arabs in Africa maybe in Arabia'' Africans whit a lighter skin are berbères and they are not white they have only a light skin and they uses the Arab language because they are Muslim 4 read the holy CORAN I am from Niger so i know them very well that is something you white people don't understand
Chakib Zine le gouina targui , imazigen , kabyles all berbères people are since long ago according their traditional religion to the closest political power in place at the moment so they have been Muslims , Jewish , Christian but always keeping the soul of nature and land spirits close to their hearts. Djihadists ( who are they exactly ,where do they come from and where does their money comes from?)are artificially made to destroy real resistance against French,American or Chinese exploitation and looting of geological and natural ressources.Russia might be behind only to be part of it and using the resent of the people. Anyway the goal of all this mess is eradication of nomadism to allow regular stealing of thèse lands hudge wealth by the companies of those countries who all agrees on this point pretending to bring them « freedom ».
Dzaaamn, this lady has a dope voice. I was introduced to Taureg sound when I was in high school in early 2000s, I watched a documentary of Taureg Jazz Festival that used to take place in Timbuktu, the sound was so captivating and I've been hooked ever since
As a Somali whose ancestors created the land of punt, macrobia, 5000 and 3000 years ago respectively, and the adal sultanate ajuran empires and many other kingdoms in the last 1100 years, I admire and cherish the medieval city Timbuktu which was a thriving trade based city ruled by the famous Mali Empire whose King Mansa Musa was the richest man in the world who was the only man in history to control the entire worlds' highest known gold reserves during the medieval era
When did the Author go to Timbuktu? I am missing the city and its people very much because I was there in April 2014. Comparing then, I feel people's life getting harder, esp. one person said "it's not civil war, it's ethnic war", which is very worrisome. Since its beginning, Timbuktu has been a multi-ethnic city: the Peuls were from west, Moors from north, Songhay from east, and Bamana from south, while the city was established by Tuareg in the beginning of the twelfth century. If there are not multi-ethnic people or White, Black and Mixed people living, it is not Timbuktu. They can live together in peace and music. The Music is excellent, but also a symbol of peace and harmony!
It must have been a few years ago, as Khaira Arby (the singer) sadly passed away in 2018. I'm glad to have discovered her talents through this documentary.
I imagined this place totally different. While growing up in my home town in India if someone asked me where are you going and if I don’t want to tell where I’m heading towards So, my usual reply was “ I am going to Timbuktu , would you like to join”
Typical Indian. Well, I have news for you. And it would be wise to share it with your ppl. Indians have been in Africa for *CENTURIES.* Ask the monsoon winds. Your ancestors used to sail to East Africa, then up & down the whole coast-line, trading your goods for anything precious. Plenty of *GOLD!* *When the west colonised the rest of the world, the british took your ppl to Africa to build infrastructures. That was late 1800s.* This took v long as the most fertile lands are deep in the hinterland. At least half way *across the continent!* Indians clearing super-dense equatorial forests. *By hand-tools!* They must have immensely regretted... The shear thought of India was a luxury they couldn't afford. Many didn't make it. Got buried along the way. Those who survived saw the dawn of the good old E.A.R.& H. (East African Railways & Harbours). Now that there *WERE* means of transportation, they could go home. Others went only to take their families & *RETURNED TO AFRICA.* *THAT'S* how good life was... In the wave of independence the brits gave Indians a choice. "This *ISN'T* anymore a british protectorate. Return home (to India) or take this country's citizenship." That was 1950s & 60s. By then of cause these are *NOT* the original Indians. But their 3rd, 4th, 5th *DESCENDANTS.* Nothing in common with India. And they were living *LARGE!* *S T I L L A R E.* Those who aren't won't follow you to India for *ANYTHING.*
I'm embarrassed. I have a nice guitar and yet too lazy to learn and play it consistently as it gathers dust in the corner. I am now inspired to dust it off and keep learning.
Your friend's beautiful music put tears in my eyes. The guitarists were very skilled, and melodic, I wish the whole song had played. What a wonderful evening you must have had!
Timbuktu should live up to its name. Amazing singers and musicians. The songs are so good and full of life. The souvenir seller man need a new guitar. I feel sad for him and all who suffered.
Er, No. I lived in Ethiopia for 12 years. The music, the vocals, the culture is not the same. There are 82 different tribes in ET alone. The history and the languages are quite different as well. Do not imagine that Africa is one homogeneous place.
I have mad respect for this reporters attitude and language skills. Really appreciate these documentaries although the content can be harrowing, my heart goes out to the inspirational people in these films. thank you 💜
Bedankt voor deze reportage Bram and crew. Dat is moedig om daar heen te gaan. Ik bewonder je talent om mensen te laten praten over hun diepste problemen.
Lovely music! (Minute 06:37) Never heard that before my first try getting to Timbouctou. Thought Bram was going by “pinnase” thru the Niger River! Three days up river, three days of adventure and beauty, unforgettable! No other way to go. Mopti to Timbouctou by boat! Did two attempts to get to Timbouctou La Misteriouse; 2010, 28 hrs by bus Bamako to Mopti. Run out of time and had to return. Second and successful attempt, 2011, same plus my three days on board a pinnasse, then, on my second day the Gendarmerie du Timbouctou had to take me into custody for my own safety; jihadists were in town. The third day “the police extracted me to Bamako” on a 4x4, of course, had to pay my fee. Still, Timbouctou has been one of my most memorable trips ever!
I C My excuse; I am not anything, or almost anything to intimidate me from going to a place I’ve planned to go. When I departed Mopti by pinnasse, was warned; the river is full of terrorists, wanna get off? Nah, let’s go! I want to see Timbouctou La Misteriouse. And I did. Last march I was in Aleppo and Homs, in Syria, during the bombing by Turkey in Aleppo, and fighting outside Homs.... March 2020 I drove into Mosul by mistake following directions from my “trusty” iPhone’s GPS. Kirkuk was another place I entered by mistake also... got my videos in my channel, check them out... unfortunately when I visited Timbouctou I had only my iPhone 1 and not much video was recorded, made up a video of my trip with photos and a couple of bad quality video clips.....
The saddest part about this is that the No Weapon On Board sticker even exists. That there is such a despicable state of horror there that they need to broadcast 'hey we're not a part of your insanity' is itself kind of insane.
*Maa Shaa Allah!* This sibling-duo is *stunning!!* *The Desert:* So vast! Incredibly inhospitable... One wrong turn & you'll be running in circles. Hungry, dehydrated, hallucinating... *STEAKED!* Enough to turn me *DESERT-PHOBIC!*
Absolutely. That some group would crush the soul and spirit of a people, and limit this lovely lady to the point of exile, is beyond vile. I know it may not mean much; but her voice speaks on. Creativity and love cannot be killed by a bullet or a regime.
Strange Africa is rich in minerals like gold ,uranium, diamond's, oil ,lithium and a lot of other minerals need it to europian industry but the people of Africa is still poor. It seems Europe takes minerals from Africa in " exchange "for democracy.
Keep them distracted and fighting each other to get chance to looted resources..Caucasian are always interesting in African affaires but never want africa to wake up by self.
I want Africa to wake up of it's own accord, and develop humanely over all it's vastness, as each people or collective of peoples sees fit. Africans can experiment in self government, selecting practices and institutions from tribal customs, the west, the Arab world and Asia. If the people wish it, they can even adjust borders bilaterally to correct the problematic separations and inclusions of populations the Europeans devised to weaken each polity. It's your time, and I wish you well.
@@bombazine2 We are not the same. We're all humanoids, yes. But some humanoids lack the genetic traits that civilize and make you care for other human beings. These humanoids tend to lack melanin and have a wrath of violence, inequality, oppression and immorality; these are the same humanoids that have infected every kind of people and create circumstances and situations like the very one outlined in this video. We don't live in Disneyland, man.
Maybe it depends on the device (and the speakers) that someone is watching this on. I dunno, but that might be it. I watched on my iPhone and had no problem hearing the dialogue.
How sad that, even today, humanity turns on its own. These people cannot count on help from the UN peacekeepers, while here in the US we see more and more we cannot count on our government or even the police at times. What has the world come to...?
The only real chance Africa has a chance is to rise up as one nation and kick out ALL occupying countries! This is pathetic! And to oppress music from people is just blasphemy!
@Shooting Star new colonialism is in the form of companies. don't try to blame Islam. when Islam truly ruled in Africa it was in its golden age. just google Mansa Musa you filthy pig!
@Shooting Star the true disease is the west. Churcil be killing 3 miljoen benghalis and stealing 45 triljoen from india. King Leopold of Belgium be killing and torturing people in the worst ways possible in Congo and you trying to blame Islam? Islam made Africa the richest continent on earth. And the westerns made it a pit of hell full of misery. Wonder how people can be so blind man.
Same goes for India when the majority of people where Muslim it was going through a golden age. The Brits come it becomes a pitt of hell. How can you blame Islam if it's clearly the west that is making live hard for the majority humanity
@Shooting Star www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html and this one amp.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churchills-real-darkest-hour-new-evidence-confirms-british
@Shooting Star and those terrorists are not real Muslims. They are armed groups funded by the west used to keep Africa weak so the west can exploit them as much as possible. Mansa Musa didn't kill people? He even donated so much to the poor that gold was worth nothing so he had to take some back. Don't try to blame Islam its the west causing misery in this world
How can music be outlaw!!! That is evil. Music of Mali is so beautiful! Love Amadou and Maryam. Really wish I had money I would send you some but I am out of work and poor and also elderly. But very blessed. I can still hear the music!!
Thank you so much for this piece of beauty. I have just one point to comment about . As we know Timbuktu is a city that is rich with its multiracial ppl. But I have realized that your documentary was not covering some ethnicities that consider as main core of Timbuktu . I have no idea if you meant that or it is just coincidence. Anyway, Thank you for your braveness , time and effort
What story to tell?is it a story of u and your people still trying to opress blacks in the country of their origin when you are just a settler?your time is up..
I didn’t fully buy his story, but your comparison is a pretty good one. Something about his delivery seemed less confident, less credible than I expected.
@@aborigineone2377 though you were talking about present day ghana, which has nothing to do with the ghana empire, if you talking abouth the ghana empire my bad, and also the mali empire was way bigger than the ghana one tho ,
So, it seems that the biggest issue that viewers have, is the music vs. spoken sound. Maybe I am confused, or such, but given that most of this is in French with subtitles, and even though I speak rusty French, and can read captions enough to see the usual translation problems, I fail to comprehend the sound issue. Mais, c'est vie vie, du temps en temps.
I have a good life in the UK and am proud to be British, but coming from an Indian family who fled anti Asian voilence East Africa in the 1970s I wish one day to reconnect with my African roots. What happened to us was terrible, but if you ask anyone from East Africa who went through it, all anyone talks about is how amazing life there was before the tragedy. Perhaps one day this will happen, as I hope it will for Saharans too.
Shouldda left more of the bands performance in at the end. And unless I missed it you didn't even mention their name, which is pretty condescending to think no one would want to know it. And, again, I may be mistaken, but the bands name is Tinariwen, and they're amazing.
The Greatest City in the world, the first to built a University to enhance the academic background of people around the city, and the country. Malians and Africans should be the ones ruling the world, not the other way. That's how things can change from good to worse. But Viva Africa Viva and hopethe current and future generations to change things and return them to normality. ✊
Amazing dicumentary, im from mali too, i invite all americans ti come visit my country especially the north, but currently, extremism, terrorism, has raised in that all region
Instead of leaving ancient doctrine on display for anyone to just come and destroy them, do me and the ancestors a favor...secure them in a safe place.
it saddens me to read through the comments and see so many insults, hate on different skin, religion, tribes etc. shouldnt this documentary about timbuktu show us that people of different kind can peacefully live next and with each other?! only ingridients required is tolerance and respect.
Only had heard of fables of Timbuktu….now this documentary has opened up a whole new real city in front of my eyes….salute for it, really heart warming and thought provoking
My Mali, My People, My country...stay focus, very soon we'll come home to support
Thank you for this wonderful documentary. I remember whilst growing up in india , if you wanted to keep your destination a secret , one would say they are going to Timbuktu. What i saw is how beautiful and resilient the people are of Timbuktu. And what hauntingly beautiful voices and music . Hope there is peace and harmony there now .
What's haunting *CAN'T* be beautiful.
What's beautiful *CAN'T* be haunting.
They're as opposite as:
north & south.
black & white
day & night
Ha ha so strange. My mother would say the same, ” where did you go? Timbuktu? ”me coming back from the forest in my backyard in Québec Canada 🇨🇦
I was waiting for this video on Timbuktu to be published. Well done guys, what an excellent documentary of a place we'd all forgotten about. That lady singer's voice, who left the city, was truly mesmerizing. The piece raised so many issues and questions about Black and white, Arabs and Africans, radicalism, and colonialism, still working through all of that!
There is no Arabs in Africa maybe in Arabia'' Africans whit a lighter skin are berbères and they are not white they have only a light skin and they uses the Arab language because they are Muslim 4 read the holy CORAN I am from Niger so i know them very well that is something you white people don't understand
Chakib Zine le gouina targui , imazigen , kabyles all berbères people are since long ago according their traditional religion to the closest political power in place at the moment so they have been Muslims , Jewish , Christian but always keeping the soul of nature and land spirits close to their hearts. Djihadists ( who are they exactly ,where do they come from and where does their money comes from?)are artificially made to destroy real resistance against French,American or Chinese exploitation and looting of geological and natural ressources.Russia might be behind only to be part of it and using the resent of the people. Anyway the goal of all this mess is eradication of nomadism to allow regular stealing of thèse lands hudge wealth by the companies of those countries who all agrees on this point pretending to bring them « freedom ».
@@chakibzinelegouina1272 Maybe 500 years ago they were arabs but most African arabs are mixed with berbers so it's only like maybe 1 percent arab
Islaam destroy everything.
@@chakibzinelegouina1272 Berbers are NOT black.
Dzaaamn, this lady has a dope voice. I was introduced to Taureg sound when I was in high school in early 2000s, I watched a documentary of Taureg Jazz Festival that used to take place in Timbuktu, the sound was so captivating and I've been hooked ever since
It is amazing. I wish I could get some of her music online. I'm sure it's somewhere. Do you know her name?
@@melasonos6132 it’s mentioned @34:16 Khaira Arby is her name :)
@@fetihaaa I missed that. Thank you for replying, very much!
@@fetihaaa How about more like 2:41
@@melasonos6132 she was called the Nightingale of Tombouctou. She toured in America at one time. Sadly she passed a few years back.
I was born and grown up in Timbuktu I know every corner of the city
As a Somali whose ancestors created the land of punt, macrobia, 5000 and 3000 years ago respectively, and the adal sultanate ajuran empires and many other kingdoms in the last 1100 years, I admire and cherish the medieval city Timbuktu which was a thriving trade based city ruled by the famous Mali Empire whose King Mansa Musa was the richest man in the world who was the only man in history to control the entire worlds' highest known gold reserves during the medieval era
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I get your point ...But King Soloman IS the RICHEST THERE EVER WILL BE. No other human will ever be richer then King Soloman ..according to God
@@tyraherron6074 well, I respect king Suleiman as a noble prophet of Allah/God
When did the Author go to Timbuktu? I am missing the city and its people very much because I was there in April 2014. Comparing then, I feel people's life getting harder, esp. one person said "it's not civil war, it's ethnic war", which is very worrisome. Since its beginning, Timbuktu has been a multi-ethnic city: the Peuls were from west, Moors from north, Songhay from east, and Bamana from south, while the city was established by Tuareg in the beginning of the twelfth century. If there are not multi-ethnic people or White, Black and Mixed people living, it is not Timbuktu. They can live together in peace and music. The Music is excellent, but also a symbol of peace and harmony!
It must have been a few years ago, as Khaira Arby (the singer) sadly passed away in 2018. I'm glad to have discovered her talents through this documentary.
I imagined this place totally different. While growing up in my home town in India if someone asked me where are you going and if I don’t want to tell where I’m heading towards So, my usual reply was “ I am going to Timbuktu , would you like to join”
Typical Indian.
Well, I have news for you.
And it would be wise to share it with your ppl.
Indians have been in Africa for *CENTURIES.*
Ask the monsoon winds.
Your ancestors used to sail to East Africa, then up & down the whole coast-line, trading your goods for anything precious. Plenty of *GOLD!*
*When the west colonised the rest of the world, the british took your ppl to Africa to build infrastructures. That was late 1800s.*
This took v long as the most fertile lands are deep in the hinterland. At least half way *across the continent!* Indians clearing super-dense equatorial forests. *By hand-tools!*
They must have immensely regretted...
The shear thought of India was a luxury they couldn't afford. Many didn't make it. Got buried along the way.
Those who survived saw the dawn of the good old E.A.R.& H. (East African Railways & Harbours).
Now that there *WERE* means of transportation, they could go home. Others went only to take their families & *RETURNED TO AFRICA.*
*THAT'S* how good life was...
In the wave of independence the brits gave Indians a choice. "This *ISN'T* anymore a british protectorate. Return home (to India) or take this country's citizenship."
That was 1950s & 60s.
By then of cause these are *NOT* the original Indians. But their 3rd, 4th, 5th *DESCENDANTS.* Nothing in common with India.
And they were living *LARGE!*
*S T I L L A R E.*
Those who aren't won't follow you to India for *ANYTHING.*
Wooow that lady musically killin it 🥰❤
22:56 I love this song. I keep coming back to hear it every time.
Mali really has some beautiful music.
It's called Yarabi" by Ali Farka Toure
That's so sad and tragic. My heart goes to the people of Mali and Timbuctu.
You are doing one of the most toughest work ,,not only reporting,but this kind of reporting is really tough..
I'm embarrassed. I have a nice guitar and yet too lazy to learn and play it consistently as it gathers dust in the corner. I am now inspired to dust it off and keep learning.
Your friend's beautiful music put tears in my eyes. The guitarists were very skilled, and melodic, I wish the whole song had played. What a wonderful evening you must have had!
I wish if I can buy that guy a guitar 🎸
$8000.
He just needs the strings. I do wish he does get his guitar going again.
You could buy me
Me too ❤️❤️❤️
Timbuktu should live up to its name. Amazing singers and musicians. The songs are so good and full of life. The souvenir seller man need a new guitar. I feel sad for him and all who suffered.
I hope one day I have the opportunity to go to Mali and Timbuktu to see and experience apart of people and culture when it's safe.
Apart of my people.
The musical instruments and vocals are the same from Timbuktu,Sudan,Ethiopia and Somalia.🔥
Er, No. I lived in Ethiopia for 12 years. The music, the vocals, the culture is not the same. There are 82 different tribes in ET alone. The history and the languages are quite different as well. Do not imagine that Africa is one homogeneous place.
The music of Mali and Senegal is definetly connected to east africa, especially sudan and ethiopia. Its so obvious...
Excellent documentary. Very impressive.
Great documentary, i traveled across Sahara region to Morocco , Mauritania and Mali..
Thank you for uploading this
I have mad respect for this reporters attitude and language skills. Really appreciate these documentaries although the content can be harrowing, my heart goes out to the inspirational people in these films. thank you 💜
Bedankt voor deze reportage Bram and crew. Dat is moedig om daar heen te gaan. Ik bewonder je talent om mensen te laten praten over hun diepste problemen.
Lovely music! (Minute 06:37) Never heard that before my first try getting to Timbouctou.
Thought Bram was going by “pinnase” thru the Niger River! Three days up river, three days of adventure and beauty, unforgettable! No other way to go. Mopti to Timbouctou by boat!
Did two attempts to get to Timbouctou La Misteriouse; 2010, 28 hrs by bus Bamako to Mopti. Run out of time and had to return.
Second and successful attempt, 2011, same plus my three days on board a pinnasse, then, on my second day the Gendarmerie du Timbouctou had to take me into custody for my own safety; jihadists were in town. The third day “the police extracted me to Bamako” on a 4x4, of course, had to pay my fee.
Still, Timbouctou has been one of my most memorable trips ever!
I C My excuse; I am not anything, or almost anything to intimidate me from going to a place I’ve planned to go.
When I departed Mopti by pinnasse, was warned; the river is full of terrorists, wanna get off? Nah, let’s go! I want to see Timbouctou La Misteriouse. And I did.
Last march I was in Aleppo and Homs, in Syria, during the bombing by Turkey in Aleppo, and fighting outside Homs.... March 2020 I drove into Mosul by mistake following directions from my “trusty” iPhone’s GPS. Kirkuk was another place I entered by mistake also... got my videos in my channel, check them out... unfortunately when I visited Timbouctou I had only my iPhone 1 and not much video was recorded, made up a video of my trip with photos and a couple of bad quality video clips.....
Thanks for putting that together!
The saddest part about this is that the No Weapon On Board sticker even exists. That there is such a despicable state of horror there that they need to broadcast 'hey we're not a part of your insanity' is itself kind of insane.
Thank I am enjoying the "Secrets of the Sahara" series
The way I love Timbuktu, I feel like I will not rest in peace should I die before I go there. I pray the security issue improves
Wouldve loved to hear a bit more of that sahara blues at the end there!!!
they need to scan all these manuscripts!!
*Maa Shaa Allah!*
This sibling-duo is *stunning!!*
*The Desert:*
So vast! Incredibly inhospitable...
One wrong turn & you'll be running in circles. Hungry, dehydrated, hallucinating... *STEAKED!*
Enough to turn me *DESERT-PHOBIC!*
God Bless the people of Timbuktu. Have many nights of fun and develop your economy. Good luck to all of you.
Thanks for sharing, shared.
Excellent. Thank you.
How can we reach this guy to buy him a guitar.
exact same thought
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i need a quran , can you buy one for me?
Yes thought the same - zero strings and not being able to earn a living!
We read about this city in our history classes in high school! I pray it is restored and kept safe again!
Cool doco!!! Thank you.
Please remix the sound for this excellent documentary: The music sometimes is much too loud. Thanks for your brilliant work anyway.
Thank you so much for this video.
Rest in peace Aira Arby
Absolutely. That some group would crush the soul and spirit of a people, and limit this lovely lady to the point of exile, is beyond vile. I know it may not mean much; but her voice speaks on. Creativity and love cannot be killed by a bullet or a regime.
what a beautiful culture and i really like the music i wish and hope things will improve and bring back hope to its people
Informative 👍
beautiful music. I wish they could have put the translated lyrics in the subtitles
Very sad, everyone should be free to live how they want to live as long as they don’t hurt anyone 😢
heart wrenching and hope giving as well. Timbuktu will rise again.InshaAllah!
That song n music 👌👌
Strange Africa is rich in minerals like gold ,uranium, diamond's, oil ,lithium and a lot of other minerals need it to europian industry but the people of Africa is still poor. It seems Europe takes minerals from Africa in " exchange "for democracy.
Yes Africa has no saying
Thank you
Merci très intéressant document.
Keep them distracted and fighting each other to get chance to looted resources..Caucasian are always interesting in African affaires but never want africa to wake up by self.
I want Africa to wake up of it's own accord, and develop humanely over all it's vastness, as each people or collective of peoples sees fit. Africans can experiment in self government, selecting practices and institutions from tribal customs, the west, the Arab world and Asia. If the people wish it, they can even adjust borders bilaterally to correct the problematic separations and inclusions of populations the Europeans devised to weaken each polity. It's your time, and I wish you well.
Everything to do with money and nothing to do with race. Humans are all the same in good and bad ways
Jhadist aren't Caucasian!!! Where is your out rage about all the horrifying things going on in your country? Self righteous hypocrite .🙄
How did a nation so vast in richness fall? The Kings got greedy and rejected the one true Maker of Heaven and Earth.
@@bombazine2 We are not the same. We're all humanoids, yes. But some humanoids lack the genetic traits that civilize and make you care for other human beings. These humanoids tend to lack melanin and have a wrath of violence, inequality, oppression and immorality; these are the same humanoids that have infected every kind of people and create circumstances and situations like the very one outlined in this video. We don't live in Disneyland, man.
Wow what a nice document
Music is excellent , I don't understand the complaints
It should be turned off when he’s explaining things
Maybe it depends on the device (and the speakers) that someone is watching this on. I dunno, but that might be it. I watched on my iPhone and had no problem hearing the dialogue.
Great
WOW- This music is amazing -reminds me of Bombino or Tinariwen (sp)? Incredible!!
How sad that, even today, humanity turns on its own. These people cannot count on help from the UN peacekeepers, while here in the US we see more and more we cannot count on our government or even the police at times. What has the world come to...?
Glad they got to turn up for a little concert. I don't care who your God is life needs music🕊️
The only real chance Africa has a chance is to rise up as one nation and kick out ALL occupying countries! This is pathetic! And to oppress music from people is just blasphemy!
@Shooting Star new colonialism is in the form of companies. don't try to blame Islam. when Islam truly ruled in Africa it was in its golden age. just google Mansa Musa you filthy pig!
@Shooting Star the true disease is the west. Churcil be killing 3 miljoen benghalis and stealing 45 triljoen from india. King Leopold of Belgium be killing and torturing people in the worst ways possible in Congo and you trying to blame Islam? Islam made Africa the richest continent on earth. And the westerns made it a pit of hell full of misery. Wonder how people can be so blind man.
Same goes for India when the majority of people where Muslim it was going through a golden age. The Brits come it becomes a pitt of hell. How can you blame Islam if it's clearly the west that is making live hard for the majority humanity
@Shooting Star www.aljazeera.com/amp/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html and this one amp.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3005838/churchills-real-darkest-hour-new-evidence-confirms-british
@Shooting Star and those terrorists are not real Muslims. They are armed groups funded by the west used to keep Africa weak so the west can exploit them as much as possible. Mansa Musa didn't kill people? He even donated so much to the poor that gold was worth nothing so he had to take some back. Don't try to blame Islam its the west causing misery in this world
Poignant and so sad. May PEACE and music return to the people of Timbuktu and all of Mali.
Wow that my tribe language because am also from Timbuktu but I hav never been there
This is mainly a Fench language. I understand many of the words rooted in Spanish.
Boy go home and help build your community ❤
So boy where u at?
Nana nazima M am from Ghana but am now in Dubai
Nana nazima M because i was born there
Thank You from Brasil.
How can music be outlaw!!! That is evil. Music of Mali is so beautiful! Love Amadou and Maryam. Really wish I had money I would send you some but I am out of work and poor and also elderly. But very blessed. I can still hear the music!!
Thank you so much for this piece of beauty. I have just one point to comment about . As we know Timbuktu is a city that is rich with its multiracial ppl. But I have realized that your documentary was not covering some ethnicities that consider as main core of Timbuktu . I have no idea if you meant that or it is just coincidence. Anyway, Thank you for your braveness , time and effort
what ethnicities live there?
@@mariehaikal3048 mandinkas(bambara) Tuareg
If I’m not mistaken zarma, Fulani, soninke
Please come to South Africa, we have an interesting story to tell. Your videos are very well produced, thank you and best Wishes.
Looking at your picture. You may not be in South Africa for long.
@@JcLazy1 yes go back to the cave in Europe
Delroy ELLIS exactly!
What story to tell?is it a story of u and your people still trying to opress blacks in the country of their origin when you are just a settler?your time is up..
The scene with the mixed-race Tuareg could have come from Apocalypse Now, meeting Kurtz.
I didn’t fully buy his story, but your comparison is a pretty good one. Something about his delivery seemed less confident, less credible than I expected.
😂😂
Can’t hear him, music too loud
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Then it's not for your ears fool
yeah the sound mixing in this episode isn't great
wow, I love her voice, Mali and Timbuktu use to be a part of Ghana they should merge together again it would be great.
are you stupid, go check history
go here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Empire , inform yourself and dont make stupid comments like that
@@girlsempowermentgroup9668 but crack you need to check it yourself fool
@@girlsempowermentgroup9668 who cares, all those countries have fake identities, drawn by Europeans
@@aborigineone2377 though you were talking about present day ghana, which has nothing to do with the ghana empire, if you talking abouth the ghana empire my bad, and also the mali empire was way bigger than the ghana one tho ,
So, it seems that the biggest issue that viewers have, is the music vs. spoken sound. Maybe I am confused, or such, but given that most of this is in French with subtitles, and even though I speak rusty French, and can read captions enough to see the usual translation problems, I fail to comprehend the sound issue. Mais, c'est vie vie, du temps en temps.
The score is horrible, tp loud. Its a documentary not an opera
The music overpowers the narrative....
serious preservation is needed here.
Good Morning Spike
I wish u go to palestine someday.. Waiting for that part.. That will be journalism in the true word
It is beyond my understanding how can they brun all there history. Books are our history.
I have a good life in the UK and am proud to be British, but coming from an Indian family who fled anti Asian voilence East Africa in the 1970s I wish one day to reconnect with my African roots. What happened to us was terrible, but if you ask anyone from East Africa who went through it, all anyone talks about is how amazing life there was before the tragedy. Perhaps one day this will happen, as I hope it will for Saharans too.
Shouldda left more of the bands performance in at the end. And unless I missed it you didn't even mention their name, which is pretty condescending to think no one would want to know it. And, again, I may be mistaken, but the bands name is Tinariwen, and they're amazing.
Props to the female vocalist, she is a diva, what is her name?
Edit: Khaira Arby
What happened to the background music? Mix it properly with the voice audio
PRetty bizarre, that intro tune is almost the same after 20 years or more?! Great Dutch series from the VPRO!
At least buy that man a guitar
Start one of those crowd funding things!!
@@benk1930 Where the person who starts it gets $10,000 and the man only gets guitar strings.
Só na tradução , mas como a África é musical,quando a senhora canta , dá pra ver o berço do suingue do soul , do jazz, do chorinho , do samba ....
The Greatest City in the world, the first to built a University to enhance the academic background of people around the city, and the country.
Malians and Africans should be the ones ruling the world, not the other way.
That's how things can change from good to worse.
But Viva Africa Viva and hopethe current and future generations to change things and return them to normality. ✊
Italy had the first university in the world
to ZEBA SHOES ad, we have seen this before and the flipback on the back usually lost the bounce and stayed down.
Name of the music (drums) at 25.50, if possible...
Was that first group at the concert Tinariwen ? Love them
Was it?
the voice!!!!!
Singing and dancing are the part of their life .that is the god gift .let these people librate from clutches of terrarism.
Heared the nam Timbuktu a lot, but really imagend something different. This looks like a lot of other cities in Africa.
You haven’t visited other cities in Africa then
Does anyone know the name of the Tuareg band at the end?
I think it IS tinariwen
And I thought Timbuktu was just a saying of somewhere being far away. Not a real place. Smh 🤦🏼♀️. I need to get out more. I love learning new things.
Then there's Lake Titicaca
When l was a kid they used to say l will send you to Tombouctou.
@ 10:52, i thought he was about to drop some bars.
She can sing and she had a good musicians
Amazing dicumentary, im from mali too, i invite all americans ti come visit my country especially the north, but currently, extremism, terrorism, has raised in that all region
Unnecessary background music, hard to hear what the man is talking!
Agree .had to stop 2atching because of annoying background music n noise
12:40 Interesting man.
The song at 23:00 reminds me of reggae
Background music is too loud.
No one has done such harm to African people more than the French, the only country learned the lesson is Rwanda and they are in prosperity now.
Instead of leaving ancient doctrine on display for anyone to just come and destroy them, do me and the ancestors a favor...secure them in a safe place.
7:03 the vibe is acc pretty hard
My! My!!!
it saddens me to read through the comments and see so many insults, hate on different skin, religion, tribes etc. shouldnt this documentary about timbuktu show us that people of different kind can peacefully live next and with each other?! only ingridients required is tolerance and respect.