An homage to Mano Dayak, the great Touareg freedom fighter and leader from Niger, who was killed in a plane crash in 1995. Dayak also made his name as the writer of several important books on Touareg culture and politics, and as the guide of the great Thierry Sabine during the annual Paris-Dakar rally. Abdellah starts off by evoking the desert where he was born before talking about another part of the Sahara, the Adrar de Bouss. This is the bush country where Mano Dayak's base was situated during the rebellion. Abdellah recalls his wonder at seeing a Touareg sitting under a tre… read more
An homage to Mano Dayak, the great Touareg freedom fighter and leader from Niger, who was killed in a plane crash in 1995. Dayak also made his name a… read more
An homage to Mano Dayak, the great Touareg freedom fighter and leader from Niger, who was killed in a plane crash in 1995. Dayak also made his name as the writer of several important boo… read more
Tinariwen (in Tuareg: "ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ"; from Tamasheq (Berber), Tenere, the desert) is a Tuareg music group, originating from Tessalit in the Adrar des Ifoghas, a region shared between southern Algeria and northern Mali. The band's fifth album Tassili, released in 2011, won the Award for Best World Music Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. Formed in 1982, in strikingly unusual circumstances for a musical ensemble, Tinariwen blend ancient musical traditions with radical contemporary politics. Despite severe natural and man-made hardships, young Kel Tamashek exiles continued perfo… read more
Tinariwen (in Tuareg: "ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ"; from Tamasheq (Berber), Tenere, the desert) is a Tuareg music group, originating from Tessalit in the Adrar des Ifoghas, a region shared between sou… read more
Tinariwen (in Tuareg: "ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ"; from Tamasheq (Berber), Tenere, the desert) is a Tuareg music group, originating from Tessalit in the Adrar des Ifoghas, a region shared between southern Algeria and northern Mali. The band… read more