Tag: Cultural_genocide
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THE FALSIFICATION OF TUAREG HISTORY PAVES THE WAY FOR POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MARGINALIZATION
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Danger alert: Urgent – The Tuareg, a millennia-old people of the Sahara, are today seeing their history and identity jeopardized by an insidious falsification that threatens their collective memory. This distortion, whether intentional or unrecognized, is gradually erasing the truth about their origins, the richness of their culture, and the…
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COLONIALISM: HOW WOULD YOU REACT IF YOUR LAND WAS DIVIDED INTO FIVE STATES?
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To the International community: How would you react if your ancestral land was divided into five states?
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AZAWAD IS NOT A POLITICAL INVENTION
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Some claim that “Azawad” is a recent political invention dating back to the 1990s. This is a false and deliberately reductive interpretation of history. The truth is simple: The term Azawad is much older than the modern states of West Africa. Azawad existed long before 1990, even before French colonization.…
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AZAWAD: SUBTLE CULTURAL THEFT …
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SUBTLE CULTURAL THEFT OF TUAREG ART WITH ONE HAND WHILE KILLING THEM WITH THE OTHER… We see it all the time – attempts to appropriate the culture of the Kel Tamasheq, the people of the desert. It´s not just about admiring another culture, (admiration is not the problem as long…
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TUAREG ART WITHOUT THE TUAREGS: THE HYPOCRISY OF MILITARY JUNTAS IN MALI AND NIGER
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Tuareg art, rich, refined, and embodying an image of freedom, has become a diplomatic tool for the military regimes in Bamako and Niamey. Offering a sword or a painting to foreign heads of state is an attempt to embody an Africa proud of its traditions. But this staging masks a…