. >> in timbuktu, they pray for a good president in a country that is 90% muslim.his festival is particularly significant this year as people hoped that the new election will turn a new page. >> there is a big difference between this year and last year. last year was nothing like this. people were not listening to music and their lives were restricted and obligated. we were living through a terrible ordeal. >> they seem more interested in celebrating been in politics for now. voters will go to the polls on sunday to elect their president, with a runoff between i.d.k. and -- had to cancel their rallies because of these celebrations. the televised debate was turned down by the front runner. he has a reputation of being a strong man, rooting out corruption and his rival is the former finance minister who says he will get the country out of the crisis and create 500,000 jobs for young people. he is hopeful he can win the election after 400,000 ballots were spoiled in the first round. voters hope this is the first step on the path to peace and stability. zimbabwe, lawye

it is not called in our language timbuktu for nothing. of course it has been called timbuktu for the last thousand years, but we noticed pulp and of the world because it is the band of the niger river where it does not get harder for development. so the president had a plan for 166 communes, mostly in the north, to develop. i tried everywhere. let's have meetings, bring foreign ministers. no one given them. not here, not two blocks down, three blocks down, one block down, one block. this is five important blocks. nobody give a damn. who cares about molly, after all . and then i was sitting under the stars one evening in january last year with the prime minister and the governor of cebu. the governor said to me, it is bad. you know, it is so dry that the herdsmen are coming, trampling the crops. there's violence every day. people are shooting. i went back to new york, the u.n. i accomplished zero. and then a few weeks later the military coup, and our own people or on a boat on the rivers escaping from the armed rebels. this stuff is predic

when i was little boy and hadn't heard of timbuktu and then discovered significance and the significance of africa and its antiquity, that all of's bonds came from egypt and all of egypt's came from ethiopia before the dawn of time,'s science and math, its literature, so much borrow from ancient egypt. when i was a child i needed to know these things just as whites need to know about ancient rome, ancient greece or ancient anything, what people who look like them accomplished in antiquity. if they need that, so the lie. i don't need to know what their people did, i need to know the story of my people. >> guest: go ahead with your question or comment. >> i appreciate all the work you have done against apartheid and what not. has the berkeley imam and not just a fan befriend of danny schechter, i would like to know about how you feel and music played in apartheid and what you think about the current endeavour 315.org is embarking upon by calling for investments from oil companies for investment portfolios. >> guest: i haven't seen danny in several years now. when i was in law school at har

and so still in timbuktu you have all of these manuscripts written between five a.d. 15 a.d., literature and support manuscripts of the highest quality written by african and arab scholars. and we knew nothing about it. we didn't know anything about the queen of sheba who is described by this claim of sheba. she. she lived all of her life and ox him which is approximately where it ethiopia is today. that sheba was and what is now yemen, but it was shortened to the queen of sheba. but the bible describes her as a woman of blacks can but in the movie it was played by gina lola bridget and sell all of our story was taken and the plot of all of this is people have history because they need it. people developed cultures and mores and issues because they need them to stay in good health. that is how we make social progress. a great jamaican once said that living without your story, without memory is like driving without a real memory -- rearview mirror except it's more dangerous to live without your story. so the point is that we were cut off from all of that and then renam