documentaryFamily-Friendly
The Light of the Sahel
A caravan of scholars. A thousand years of memory.
2026 · PG · 1h 37m
The Light of the Sahel
2026 · 1h 37m · Documentary, Faith
Family-FriendlyCertificate PGAfrican
Across Timbuktu, Kano and Harar, a young archivist races to digitise West Africa's manuscript libraries before the desert reclaims them.
A caravan of scholars. A thousand years of memory. Filmed for BMT Studios and streaming exclusively on BMT Direct, the production was made with communities on screen rather than about them. Local crews, local scholars, and locations that carry the story.
Available in English, Arabic, Hausa with subtitles in English, Arabic, French, Swahili. Rated family-friendly by the BMT editorial standards board.
Cast & crew
- Director
- Amina Diallo
- Format
- documentary
- Released
- 2026
- Duration
- 1h 37m
- Certificate
- PG
- Faith rating
- Family-Friendly
- Audio
- English, Arabic, Hausa
- Subtitles
- English, Arabic, French, Swahili
- Genres
- Documentary, Faith
- Regions
- GLOBAL
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