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Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa

His novel Tuareg was cinematized in 1984 by director Enzo G. Castellari.

Cinema of Niger

The first Tuareg feature film, Akounak Teggdalit Taha Tazoughai, is being released in 2014 and stars the musician Mdou Moctar.

Desert Sparrow

The Tuareg, who call the bird "moula-moula", also say that this bird brings good news when it comes to stay near the camp.

Dirkou

Its population is made up primarily of traditionally sedentary Kanuri people, as well as semi-nomadic Tuareg and Tubu people.

Elizabeth Norton

She was a member of a university research group led by Jeremy Keenan to the Algerian Sahara which surveyed prehistoric rock art and travelled with the Tuareg people.

Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell

Rodd would later make two great expeditions into the central Sahara (in 1922 and 1927) which provided him for the material of his book about the Tuareg, entitled People of the Veil.

Gao Cercle

During the Northern Mali conflict in 2012, the main Tuareg rebel group, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) lost the region to the Islamist groups Ansar Dine, Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).

Ikelan

In 1946, a series of mass desertions of Tuareg slaves and bonded communities began in Nioro and later in Menaka, quickly spreading along the Niger River valley.

Jean-François Klobb

He returned to French Sudan with the rank of Major in July 1895, distinguishing himself against the Tuaregs, that he defeated in a series of battles fought in 1897–98, that helped to secure French control on Timbuktu, endangered by the massacre near the city of a platoon of Sipahis in June 1897.

Kel Ferwan

The Kel Ferwan are a Tuareg nomadic clan, who have historically been a subgroup of the Kel Ayr confederation.

Los Guerreros Tuareg

Los Guerreros Tuareg (Spanish for "The Tuareg Warriors") is a Mexican professional wrestling group, called a stable working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as a rudo (term used for wrestlers who portray the "Bad guys") faction.

The group was repackaged as Los Guerreros Tuareg ("The Tuareg Warriors"), inspired by the Tuareg Nomadic tribe, which was reflected in the robes and headgear the team wore to the ring and a more African tribal type entrance music.

Mariem Hassan, la voz del Sáhara

We see her at the ETNOSOI Festival in Helsinki in 2004, in Les Escales, France, where the concert was transformed into a party with the Tuareg groups that joined the performance, in a theater in Liège singing "Do not abandon me," two days before enduring an operation for cancer, and in recordings made in the desert in Saharawi camps.

Mark T. Sullivan

After graduating, he served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, teaching English to children of Tuareg nomads in the Saraha Desert.

Music of Niger

Niger born Tuareg Blues artists include the pioneering guitarist Abdallah ag Oumbadougou from Agadez and his band Takrist n'Akal, Group Bombino also from Agadez, Moussa ag Keyna's group Toumast, Mdou Moctar, and the performer Mouma Bob.

Slavery in Niger

The government initially co-sponsored a prominent event in which Arissal Ag Amdagu, a Tuareg chief in Inates, Tillabéri Department would free 7,000 of his slaves.

Souéloum Diagho

Souéloum Diagho, the contemporary Tuareg poet, comes from Tessalit in the North of Mali.

Tassili n'Ajjer

Tassili is the recording location and the title of a 2011 album by the Tuareg-Berber band Tinariwen.

Women in Mali

In 2008, the Tuareg based human rights group Temedt, along with Anti-Slavery International, reported that "several thousand" members of the Tuareg Bella caste remain enslaved in the Gao Region and especially around the towns of Menaka and Ansongo.


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