Tuareg PRONUNCIATION: TWAH-reg LOCATION: Saharan and Sahelian Africa (mostly Niger‚ Mali‚ Algeria‚ Libya‚ and Burkina Faso) POPULATION: About 1 million LANGUAGE: Tamacheq RELIGION: Islam‚ combined with traditional beliefs and practices 1 • INTRODUCTION The Tuareg are an Islamic African people. They are classified as seminomadic ‚ meaning that they travel with their herds on a seasonal basis but also have a home area where they grow some food crops. The Tuareg are best known for the men’s practice
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The Tuareg tribe can also be spelled as Touareg pronounced twa-reg. This tribe rules throughout the deserts of Africa‚ especially the region of the Sahara desert. Keeling (2012:28) reports that the Tuareg tribe consists of roughly 1 million members. The tribe lives across a range of countries in the north-western region of the Sahara. This includes countries such as Morocco‚ Niger‚ Algeria and Libya. Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 6th edition (2011:1) adds that due to various droughts and famine
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Culture and Society The culture of Timbuktu was structured due to specific roles each member was given. Women and girls were responsible for the home and cooking. They could not have the privilege of education‚ for it was strictly for men. Girls would marry at 13 and were raised in preparation of being a wife and mother. Timbuktu became a common meeting place for traders and travelers due to the location of the out of range floods of the Niger River. Islam spread through Africa by travelers and
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The Tuareg people are a semi-nomadic group indigenous to parts of Southern Algeria‚ Northern Mali‚ and Northern Niger. The Tuaregs are considered part of the Berber (also known as Amazigh) ethnic group that is indigenous to North Africa. It is currently believed that the Tuareg migrated from what is today known as Libya in the 6th century down to the North-West African Saharan region. They are both ethnic and cultural minorities in all of the countries they inhabit‚ and their global population is
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The recent political crisis in Mali has something to do with the Tuareg people that live in this region and the general religion of the region. The Tuareg people are nomadic farmers. North Africa is primarily Muslim and is heavily influenced by what happens in the Muslim world. Muslim rebel groups like the Ansar Dine seek a nation that abides by Islamic Law. Others like the Islamic Movement for Azawad seek an independent state in Northern Mali and acknowledgement of that state by the world. Mali
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making it unsuitable for vegetation to grow. Some effects of desertification are endangered species‚ poverty and starvation of the communities that live there‚ these all occur due to lack of vegetation and limited amounts of water. • Tribes such as the Tuareg and Bedouin Tribes live in the Sahara Desert and herd cattle. • People using the Sahara Desert’s sand to make houses. Human Impact on the Sahara Desert The human impacts are things like oil rigs‚ oversizing cattle‚ and military training. These
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African Rock Art was and is a very important part of African culture. These paintings have been found in such exotic locales as Libya‚ the Sahara Desert‚ Algeria and South African sites. Most of these paintings were made at about the beginning of the 5th millennium BC into the 2nd.These pictures were painted in caves or on rock walls of cliffs‚ hence the name Rock Art. Although people admire rock art‚ the design techniques‚ usage‚ and preservation of this unique artform help the viewer understand
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The Tuareg People The Tuareg are nomadic people who live in parts of Sahara that covers Algeria‚ Tunisia‚ Libya‚ Mali ‚ Niger and Burkina Faso . Their numbers are unclear‚ but estimates run between 300‚000 and 1 million. The Tuaregs speak a language called Tamershak‚ to which there is a proper alphabet. They are known under the name of "Blue Men"‚ because men cover their face with a dark blue veil. The veiling has different meanings; it shows the male gender role identity and shows
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INTRODUCTION Trade across the Sahara goes back at least one thousand years before the beginning of our period- perhaps many thousands of years. People often speak and write of ‘Africa South of the Sahara’ as if the Sahara was a frontier that divided Africa. On the contrary‚ the Sahara‚ at all periods‚ has provided highways for Africans to cross; it is more of a bridge than a barrier‚ even though there is a sharp drop both in altitude and life-supporting conditions from the Atlas into the Sahara
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Compare and contrast Essay The trans-Saharan and Silk Road trade routes were global trade routes that shaped and impacted their respective areas during the Iron Age. The trans-Saharan and Silk Road both used similar methods of trade because of technological innovation and environmental interactions of the time. The trans-Saharan and Silk road trade routes lead to different cultural diffusion due to the difference in diversity among the ethnic groups in Asia‚ Africa‚ the Middle East‚ and Europe
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