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Tuareg is known as Tamasheq by western Tuareg in Mali, as Tamahaq among Algerian and Libyan Tuareg, and as Tamajeq in the Azawagh and Aïr regions of Niger. French missionary Charles de Foucauld compiled perhaps the earliest dictionary of the Tuareg language. [ 108 ]
Tuareg people are spread across a large area of West Africa, settled and transient amongst other cultures. As the Tuareg moved south on the continent in the 11th century AD, they took slaves as prisoners of war. Most slaves were taken from adjacent populations, as well from rival Tuareg Kels (tribal confederations).
Tuareg society has traditionally featured clan membership, social status and caste hierarchies within each political confederation. [68] [69] These hierarchical systems have included nobles, clerics, craftsmen and unfree strata of people. [70] [71] In Tuareg hierarchical caste system, the nobles constitute the highest caste. [72]
Historically, the Tuareg swelled the ranks of their black slaves by conducting war raids into other peoples’ lands. War was the main source of supply of slaves, although many were bought at slave markets, run mostly by indigenous peoples.
The Tuaregs: The Blue People. Museum Tusculanum Press. ISBN 978-87-7289-313-6. Hart, David (1984). The Ait 'Atta of Southern Morocco Daily Life & Recent History. United Kingdom: Middle East & North African Studies Press. ISBN 9780906599150
BAMAKO (Reuters) -Mali's military reported deadly clashes on Tuesday with northern Tuareg rebels, who said they briefly seized control of a military camp in the town of Bourem in a further sign of ...
Fresh fighting broke out between Mali's army and northern Tuareg rebels on Sunday, with the rebels claiming to have taken control of two army bases in the central town of Lere. The rebel alliance ...
The Inadan, also referred to as Enad or Tinadan, [2] [3] have been one of the historic artisan castes in West Africa, particularly among the Tuareg people. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Sometimes referred to as an endogamous caste and sometimes as endogamous marginalized class within the Tuareg, the Inadan are found in Niger , Mali , Libya , Sahel and other ...