Etniik : Tuareg Tribes

The Tuareg people occupy the central Sahara and the edges of the Sahel. This territory is crossed by political borders resulting from colonization. Tuaregs thus find in five countries different like Niger with a population from approximately 1 500 000, in Mali, 1 000 000, in Lybie in Algeria and Burkina-Faso, 500 000. The touareg language, called Tamahaq, Tamajaq or Tamachaq, according to areas' is one of the components of the Berber language. Tuaregs have an alphabet called Tifinagh, but the tradition remained primarily oral. Their music is a hypnotic song and the accents of primitive music, the rhythm is like the Berber music. It is sometimes associated the tea time, accompanied by the slappings of hand or percussions. The women and the men sing, together or alone. The texts often represent impressions of the author on the desert, the women or the life of the villages and the camps. The texts are simple and poetic. The most practised music and most known of the travellers is Tinde. A woman soloist sings and marks the rhythm with the drum. A chorus of variable size answers the singer.