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Various other terms are used to describe it [1] including desert rock, Saharan rock, [3] Takamba, [2] Mali blues, [4] Tuareg rock [5] or simply "guitar music". [6] The style has been pioneered by Tuareg musicians in the Sahara region, particularly in Mali , Niger , Libya , Algeria , Burkina Faso and others; with it also being developed by ...
During such exercises, the band met additional Tuareg musicians and formed a loosely-organized collective to create songs about the issues facing the Tuareg people. [9] They built a makeshift studio and vowed to record music for free for anyone who supplied a blank cassette tape. The resulting homemade cassettes were traded widely throughout ...
Major fighting between the Tuareg resistance and government security forces ended after the 1995 and 1996 agreements. As of 2004, sporadic fighting continued in Niger between government forces and Tuareg rebels. In 2007, a new surge in violence occurred. [41] The development of Berberism in North Africa in the 1990s fostered a Tuareg ethnic ...
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Tuareg people at the 2012 festival. The first festival took place in Tin Essako in January 2001, an initiative created by Manny Ansar, manager of Tuareg band Tinariwen, who played at the festival, [1] along with the band Lo'Jo, who co-organised the festival. [2] Around 500 to 600 people attended that first festival. [3]
Mali's military government has announced an investigation into the Tuareg rebel leaders who signed a peace agreement in 2015 and now accuse the government of failing to comply with it, as experts ...
Emmaar is the sixth album by the Tuareg band Tinariwen, released in 2014. [5] Emmaar is a Tuareg word meaning "the heat on the breeze". [6] It is their first full album not to be recorded in northern Africa.
Bombino was born in 1980 in Tidene, Niger, a Tuareg encampment about 80 kilometers northeast of Agadez. He is a member of the Ifoghas tribe, which belongs to the Kel Air Tuareg federation. [2] Following the outbreak of the Tuareg Rebellion in 1990, Bombino, along with his father and grandmother, was forced to flee to neighboring Algeria for ...