«Timbuktu Fasso» - Fatoumata Diawara & Amine Bouhafa 

The beauty of Africa in the grief of sadness with a wonderful music that brings tears to my eyes. From ethiopia🇪🇹🇪🇹

Such a beautiful song... Je suis Congolais, la musique est notre Passion mais plus qu'une chanson, cette belle voie vehicule le message. Reveil toi AFRIQUE car tu vaincra un jour.

Lyrics: THIS IS MY LAND This is Timbuktu, my home land, Where the children are mourning from gloom, This is my land, Timbuktu «the Maliba», The land of love, The land of warmth, The land of dignity, Here is my Nation... Why are we crying? Why are the children crying? Why are the young crying? Cause of unfairness, Cause of violence, Fearing the future... Here is my home Stop crying Cause no matter what, Timbuktu will remain

This song makes me cry. I'm so sorry for any oppressed peoples especially in their own land. May God dry every tear and free them from their oppressors! With love from your Black American sister💖

Mali ba , Ghana ba ,Africa ba unity is what we need.

Wow this song deeply touches my soul whenever I listen to it. May God bless and protect my country Mali and all countries across the world.

GOD BLESS AFRICA..

My 2-month-old son falls asleep to this song. The emotions transcend language. Thanks for making your beautiful music.

THIS IS MY LAND This is Timbuktu, my home land, Where the children are mourning from gloom, This is my land, Timbuktu «the Maliba», The land of love, The land of warmth, The land of dignity, Here is my Nation… Why are we crying? Why are the children crying? Why are the young crying? Cause of unfairness, Cause of violence, Fearing the future… Here is my home Stop crying Cause no matter what, Timbuktu will remain

Absolutely magnificent, the music and her voice touch my heart even though I don't understand one word of this.... I have come close to shedding tears every time I listen to this...

The video starts out with life in Timbuktu before outsiders come and take over the land. There is a family of three enjoying time together, scenes of traditional fishing and cattle herding, both genders enjoying time in conversation, etc. The outsiders come into their land and the women are forced to dress a certain way, the singer in her new required dress is being whipped, a man is being buried alive, another man has light shining on him so he can repeat what he is being forced to repeat, the family of three now just consists of the saddened mother and, at the end, the African statues are being blown up and destroyed--a representation of the final removal of the culture and ways of the people. Read about the history of the real Timbuktu (Tombouctou)--one of the world's first and oldest universities and about Mali's recent history--particularly in the north.

Que des larmes! Tumbuktu est le berceau de notre histoire et de notre dignité! Toute la civilisation humaine est partie de là! Que Dieu sauve Mali

I have no clue what she is saying but this song and the instruments are spiritual. Conjuring the deepest of emotions. I've been shouting in my room in Nigeria ''koyeme fasso ye''!!! A song about a far off land that feels like home to me.

I watched the movie 'Timbuktu'. Loved the movie and the song therein. I searched for the song here on RU-vid. I did not understand the language at first. But I just loved the melody and the music. Such rich poetry ! Thank God. People everywhere feel the same. Tears came to my eyes when I heard the melody. I thank the singer, musician and the director. Watching the movie and hearing this melody have profoundly touched me. Thanks a lot.

That scene where the converts/arab muslims were destroying the African carvings is a symbol. When will we Africans free themselves of Christianity and Islam and realize since their entrance into our lands they have been destructive. My ppl are equally suffering under Islam in the form of Al Shabab but our erosion of our indigenous culture goes back centuries. One day we will be free of it all, after all if I a former muslim black African can now see it for what it is perhaps more will soon too. Africa malin dow, one day soon

i just can't stop re-watching, re-listening, re-loving this.

Saw the movie and was completely blown away. Her voice is so captivating

This song goes to all my african brothers who died trying to reach the other side of the mediterranean seeking for a better life ..

Timbuktu Fasso ! Une émouvante chanson de la chanteuse, comédienne et auteur-compositrice-interprète malienne Fatoumata Diawara. Une chanson qui charrie la détresse de tout un peuple, meurtri et abattu. Le peuple malien. Mais, par delà les déchirures de ce peule, Timbuktu Fasso dit la détresse de toute une race et de l’humanité en lambeaux. « ko siniɲɛsigi jɔrɔ de bɛ an na (L’inquiétude de l’avenir est en nous), N ko denmisɛnnu bɛ kasi la yen (Les enfants sont en pleurs là-bas) ». Dans la voix brisée de Fatoumata, mots et maux se fusionnent. Un hymne aux dieux et à la Terre est né, où s’égrènent, une à une, toutes les désillusions des Maliens. Timbuktu Fasso, c’est aussi l’expression d’une foi inébranlable dans un avenir rutilant de soleil et de vie ! « aw kana kasi la Ala (Ne soyez pas en pleurs, Alla) Maliba don dɔ - bɛ se - - (Le grand Mali un jour vaincra) ». La grande musique est africaine. Prenez le temps et le soin d’écouter, peut-être les yeux fermés et l’âme ouverte à l’univers. Pour la section culturelle de Éduquer Haïti, Jonas Dorisca

Timbuktu is one of the most beautiful films I've seen.

I wept Praying for the best too in my Nigeria and all across Africa and the world

Merci Fatoumata Diawara❤❤❤ infiniment que Dieu veille sur le Mali Amina✌

Soulful, powerful blues felt across the continents. The movie is awesome.

My home my land my heart, Africa. What a beautiful song indeed. Love from Ethiopia

Cette chanson me touche beaucoup, à chaque fois que je vois le portail de mon école dans ce clip je reconnais même plus à cause de la barbarie soit disant la guerre à Tombouctou, cette belle ville de 333 Saints, c'est tellement triste 😭😢, et merci à toi Fatoumata Diawara pour ce beau clip sur Tombouctou bravo 🤗😘

Should have won Oscar for best song

Amazing artists! Fatoumata Diawara, great singer! Amine Bouhafa wonderful musician! Thank you both♡

I just watched this movie Timbuktu. The song is very touching ❤️ love from India

I don't know what she saying but i feel it! You sing it sister!

2 years ago i fell in love with desert blues; basically sounds from mali and saharan africa and i have never looked back! i am nigerian by the way and i am giving a break for hi-life from nigeria, ghana and congo. music and africa are one!

Love to the Saharans from India...

Doesn't get any better than this, amazing voice. Love Malian music, South Africa. ❤❤

Damn!!! I didn't even need to understand what she was saying before I got the message through the video. God bless people going all out to share their truth.

I have loved Fatoumata from the moment I first heard her songs and keep loving every song she puts out. She expresses passion, pain, love and strength so well with her voice!

Music has the power to cross all the boundaries and touches your soul irrespective of colour, religion, language & sex. This is a voice from heaven that stirs your heart and make you to forget yourself and attain the divinity . I can feel the same when I hear the song sung by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ( A Qawwali singer ) .So try to hear it and enjoy as much as you want and live your life happily.

Lovely, good music from Mali. Love from 🇳🇬

Powerful song even without understanding any of the words. Your music speaks across cultures.

Tu fais la fierté du Mali et celle de L'Afrique. Je suis fière de toi grande soeur Fatou !!!

Fatoumata Diawara clame de sa voix sublime le vécu de son peuple. Je ne connaissais pas le film, les quelques extraits ont l'air poignant. God bless Mali !

Une musique de l'âme. L'Afrique dans toute son authenticité.

Feel really lucky that I've found this song.... Beautiful !!

I don't understand the words to this but just the emotion from it is hauntingly beautiful!

So amazingly beautiful: the soul this woman puts in her words, the calm guitar, this is astonishing. I'm seeing the film "Timbuktu" today.

This song is beautiful... it brought me to tears and made me think of my home... Chicago. I am so tired of crying and mourning.... and violence.

J'ai pas les mots pour décrire mon ressenti en écoutant cette musique. Longue vie à notre grande sœur.

WHAT A POWERFUL SONG!

Magnifique..Merci Mama Africa, berceau de tous, même de moi qui suis blanc de blanc...ONE LOVE !!!

AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND PROUD

Japanese translation トンブクトゥ、我が故郷 私の故郷 友よ、トンブクトゥは私の故郷、私の故郷 きょうだいたち、トンブクトゥは私の故郷 ああ、子供たちが泣いている きょうだいたち、私たちの土地、トンブクトゥ きょうだいたち、私たちの土地、偉大なマリ 人々よ、こここそ私の故郷 私の故郷 きょうだいたち、偉大なマリ、私の故郷 あなたたち、なぜ泣いているの？ 子供たちはなぜ泣いているの？ あなたたち、なぜ泣いているの？ 若者が泣いている 偉大なマリがいつか打ち勝つ きょうだいたち、トンブクトゥは私たちの土地 明日への不安がある そこで子供達が泣いている そこで子供達は泣いている、どうして？ 心配なのね、どうしてそこなの？ ああ、泣かないで 偉大なマリがいつか打ち勝つ あなたたち、そこであなたたちが泣いている、なぜそこなの？ ああ、そこであなたたちが泣いている、どうして ああ、そこで子供たちが泣いている 偉大なマリが、ええ、いつか打ち勝つ

Love from Africa (Cameroon 🇨🇲) to the world

Beautiful ambassadors of music from Mali!

This beautiful, what a song even though i don't understand the language God bless her

What a stunning voice! It gives me goosebumps

MAGNIFIQUE !!!!

Greatness is the result of hard work and favour, but greatness that is found, had already passed away. May the ancestors guide and protect us from the oppressors, strengthen our culture among our kind, awaken in us a great wisdom, so that we may emerge out of the darkness, illuminate like the sun, reclaim the glory of our lands and our ancestors, and never shall we depart from it.

I am from india and can't understand the words but music is mind blowing. Amazing. My favorite movie.

I loved this song without knowing what the lyrics are talking about.. but then I translated the lyrics and WOW

I’m From Albania 🇦🇱 but I like this song and I know for Timbuktu

Universal Music France, votre traduction en anglais est plus qu'approximative et ne retranscrit absolument pas le message de cette magnifique musique. Ci-dessous une traduction, en français, faite par un site malien. Timbuktu Fasso ( Tombouctou, mon pays ) ko o ye ne faso ye ( C’est mon pays ) N balimalu Tonbuktu ye ne faso ye ( Mes amis, Tombouctou c’est mon pays ) mmm ko o ye ne faso ye ( C’est mon pays ) Sinjilu , Tonbuktu ye ne faso ye ( Mes frères et sœurs, Tombouctou c’est mon pays ) ko denmisɛnnu bɛ kasi la Ala ( les enfants sont en pleurs ) badenya, badenya dugu ye Tonbuktu ye ( Mes frères et sœurs, notre terre c’est Tombouctou ) Sinjiya, Sinjiya dugu ye Maliba ye ( Mes frères et sœurs, notre terre c’est le grand Mali ) yankalu yan ye ne faso ye ( gens d’ici, c’est ici mon pays ) oo bo oo boo ooo oo bo oo boo ooo ko o ye ne faso ye ( c’est mon pays ) n balimalu Maliba ye ne faso ye ( Mes frères et sœurs, le grand Mali c’est mon pays ) aw bɛ kasi la mun na ( Vous êtes en pleurs, pourquoi ? ) denmisɛnnu bɛ ka si la mun na ( Les enfants sont en pleurs, pourquoi ? ) aw bɛ kasi la mun na ( Vous êtes en pleurs, pourquoi ? ) kamalennu bɛ kasi la ( Les jeunes gens sont en pleurs ) Maliba don dɔ be se ( Le grand Mali un jour vaincra ) ko yan ye ne faso ye ( c’est ici mon pays ) nba nba N Sinjilu Tonbuktu ye ne faso ye ( Mes Frères et sœurs, Tombouctou c’est mon pays ) ko siniɲɛsigi jɔrɔ de bɛ an na ( L’inquiétude de l’avenir est en nous ) N ko denmisɛnnu bɛ kasi la yen ( Les enfants sont en pleurs là-bas ) denmisɛnnu bɛ kasi la yen mun na ( Les enfants sont en pleurs là-bas, pourquoi ? ) aw ye hami na mun na yen ( Vous êtes dans les soucis, pourquoi là-bas ? ) aw kana kasi la Ala ( Ne soyez pas en pleurs ) Maliba don dɔ - bɛ se ( Le grand Mali un jour vaincra ) aw bɛ - aw bɛ kasi la yen mun na yen ( Vous êtes - vous êtes en pleurs là-bas pourquoi là-bas ? ) N ko anw bɛ kasi la eee mun na n ba eee Ala ( vous êtes en pleurs là-bas pourquoi? ) n ko denmisɛnnu bɛ kasi la yen Ala ( les enfants sont en pleurs là-bas ) Maliba n ko don dɔ bɛ se ( Le grand Mali, je le dis, un jour vaincra )

Oh, my gosh, she's beautiful, and that song... Wow!

May Allah s.w.t. Shower His blessings over y’all Mali 🇲🇱, ameen.

Wow I don't understand the words but reading comments and watching the video found this extremely powerful and moving

This cant be described in words. Beautiful and soulful! Love to the great Mali from your sibling Sudan

#Mali I love you #Kayes♡ #Koulikoro♡ #Sikasso♡ #Segou♡ #Mopti♡ #Tombouctou♡ #Gao♡ #Kidal♡ Africa 🌍 I love you

Love from Ethiopia 🇪🇹

AFRICA Is Our MOTHER~ 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍💟

Proud to be from Timbuktu ❤️

This touches me...🙏

MAGNIFIQUE. Avec ces horreurs en France, mon pays, et au Mali, cette chanson résonne dans mon cœur et me réconforte. Merci

Sahel united ✊

I strongly recommend watching the movie "Timbuktu." This great film is a must see for everyone.

Hard to listen to this without crying, man. Wow.

Love from Botswana.

God bless Africa, may all Her enemies be put to utter shame. 🙏 ❤😢

I first heard the name Timbuktu from my great grandmother when I was very young and she never provided any details to me about Timbuktu. Tears from my heart.

am from ethiopia ..this music kills me love you mali .

Simply beautiful...nothing beats African Music

greetings from New York City.

when I play this music while driving long dist....I get emotional and pull over on the side of the....I love this song sooo much.

I listen to it again and again, SO wonderful. Greetings to everyone from Athens, Greece.

Enfin ! je l'ai beaucoup cherché! J'adore... surtout dans le film "Timbuktu", quand on la lapidait, elle était entrain de pleurer et chanter, j'ai beaucoupé pleuré aussi dans cette scène... FORT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blessing to you from the Carolinas, “EhJa” will be a shield for us all

Tous ensemble pour le Mali Notre Pays Maliba merci (sia)

Je decouvre cette belle voix et je suis emerveille. Nous, Africains, devrons changer le combat tant proner Le combat n'est pas reellement contre Autrui. Mais le combat devrait etre contre notre propre mentalite. N'est ce pas beau de voir comment cette culture est pronee a travers cette melodie? N est ce pas beau comment Autrui a non seulement accepte et embrasse ma culture? Mais pourquoi nous, Africains, delaissons cette culture? Mais pourquoi nous, Africains, s'entre-tuons chaque jour? C'est toujours nous, Africains, qui tendons la main. C'est toujours nous, Africains, qui donnons des escuses. Le combat n'est pas reellement contre Autrui. Mais l'unification de notre "Fasso" sans distiction de couleurs, religions, appartenance poliques et ethnies et tous les autres maux qui constipent ma Terre. Merci Fatoumata Diawara,merci a tous ceux qui ont realise le son, merci pour le message en Malinke meme si je ne suis pas Malinke. C'est aussi ca la richesse de mon Fasso Ba. D'apres Baba Ade

This song makes me want to cry when i listen to it I don't even understand the language but I have a deep hatred towards what Europeans did to us because I lost my culture I never had. I shouldn't be feeling like this at such a young age. God bless Africa.

Her Voice is so powerful

Trop d’émotions ❣️❤️❤️🇿🇦

Certainly one of the most emotive and very touching musics out of Mali.

The music and video simply brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful to the soul

I watched the film some time ago. Moved me immeasurably. i promote this lady whereever i can. hopefully will get to see her next time she comes to the UK. she was totally sold out last time. elle me plait moi beaucoup, elle est magnifique.

This is still the most beautiful song I've ever heard

Simply beautiful...This song gives me chills.

Splendid! I love it! I put this song in my playlist. Congratulations, thank you for this talent. François

What a tone , what a great track, and what a great movie and artist..love this..Music for liberation and soaring freedom.

Oohh I'm in love with this song , I like her personal, respect sister diawara

Absolument merveilleux, quelle interprétation de Fatoumata Diawara, merci!Ko o ye ne faso ye, sinjilu Tonbuktu yene faso ye.Prières pour le Mali.

Cette chanson me rappelle mon pays, le Mali me manque tellement 😭

uncontrollable tears streaming just........ too real

This song touches my soul, cut through the bones. Thank you.

BIG'Big''Up!!! Z'Africa Brasil......13. A' LUTA...CONTINUA...!!!