Tuareg Sahara camp

Tuareg Sahara camp
United by language Tamasheq, their writing, Tifinagh, and practice of Islam, the Tuareg populations for centuries plying the Sahel and the Sahara to trade and in search of pasture. The "blue men", so called because of their color indigo veil that rubs off on their skin, have continued to fascinate European countries-especially France- for a century and a half, while they were fighting the to conquer the Sahara. We admire their pride, we plot the refinement of their arts, their slave tradition, or the structure of their immediate society of matriarchy. According to legend, the men would wear the veil from their wives, furious defeat their husbands against the people Chamba, condemned them to bring it to them. The reality of the Tuareg people is less golden. Since their territory was divided between Libya, Algeria, Mali and Niger at the 1885 Berlin Conference, independence and life of the Tuareg communities has often been threatened. The last great feats of arms date back to the 1990s, against the governments of Niger and Mali.