The Bookmaker: An ancient craft in Ethiopia | Africa Direct Documentary
The Bookmaker: An ancient craft in Ethiopia | Africa Direct Documentary
The Bookmaker by filmmaker Girum Berehanetsehay unfolds in the mists of the high Ankober Mountains of Ethiopia.
Here, Archbishop Kalehiwot Habtewold still practices the ancient craft of parchment bookmaking.
To be able to do that, he sets his young disciples an unusual task: to find enough high-quality goat skins for the parchment needed…
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Oh please Ethiopians, let us rise up and continue the legacy our forefathers had brought for us.
Home sweet home.💚💛❤️
Oh, my Lord! You can learn more from watching these artists and scholars than from watching a hundred instructional videos on the internet. These people can teach us about our history, our art, our culture, and even our (their) religion. Truly wonderful, truly amazing!
Greetings from Ethiopia 🇪🇹. Quickly three facts. 1. As an Ethiopian i can confirm this video is exactly the same how goat skin books had been made for thousands of years in Ethiopia. 2. This knowldge and skill of making a writing pulp from goat skin is almost disapearing from all over the world but in very few areas it is still a live exhibition of history. 3. Aljezira could make a lot of money if they organize themselves and prepare a full documnetary about this skill. ( starting from its history, to notable books made with the technuque, notable craftsmen in the past and today, how the skin is collected and prepared, how the inks are prepared, how the writing is done, how the pages are binded un to a book and casing and its significance.) There you have it a compleat synopsis hehe😂. I wish every one a happy Meskel( finding of the true cross this comung thursday).
Happy to see so much of our systems still alive after so many attempts to destroy/erase them. I hope to see books & bookmaking resurge in Camerounian, Nigerian, Congolese, Zimbabwean & all our diverse written scripts. May the Gods preserve our people & land. May our ancestors guide us.
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I shed tears when the bishop blessed the food. What a great heritage. Why didn't the Church of Ethiopia made efforts to expand west? God bless Ethiopia and her people
In Ethiopian Orthodox church each and every book starts by "The Name of the father the son and the holly spirit" .
God blesse you Ethiopia my country and holly Ethiopian Orthodox church.
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The history of amhara people 💪💪💪
Wow!! Just wow!
قال الله تعالى "فويل للذين يكتبون الكتاب بأيديهم ثم يقولون هذا من عند الله الخ "
I enjoyed this! Great storytelling. Very captivating.
Al Jazeera back at it again with clean authentic stories AMEN
It is such a beautiful video, everything about it is fantastic, so soothing aswell. So blessed to be an Ethiopian 💚
Beautiful country
Beautiful People
Sending loves from Eritrea 🇪🇷 this was a profound documentary
I stopped watching Al Jazzer even deleted from my phone because of their fake news and they’re the propaganda machine of TPLF and one sided media. Show more documentaries like this one please. We’re beautiful people with amazing culture. STOP airing one sided news of my home land Ethiopia. It’s a good start though!! keep it up.
Les juifs sont racistes ?…
Much respect for the makers , wonderful video
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Why now? Alj was broadcasting all lie against ethiopian
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Ethiopian 🇪🇹is 👍very hard working 🇷🇺love ethiopian orthodox tewahedo
Amharas people are fake religious this priests are campaigning for genocide against Tigray people
we need more of this instead of propoganda and lies ! This was a veary great vedio i love it!
The way the family gathered around a meal, the way they respected their father when he gave them injera, the scenery. BEAUTIFUL!!!
This is ethnic culture, do not say ethiopian culture
I love you Ethiopia I'm nothing without you ❤️🇪🇹
How did ethiopia become Christian? I know it was Christian before europe.
In islam and in arabic another name we call the quran is mushaf. Mushaf actually means the scripture.the word comes from amharic. That's where where papers to make scripture used to come from