Tag: French_Colonialism
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NAMES ARE NOT JUST WORDS, THEY ARE IDENTITIES!
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From “Sanhaja” to “Zenata,” from “Lamtuna” to “Tuareg,” these are all terms coined by colonialism and nationalist powers to tear apart the unity of a single people who have lived on this land since time immemorial. But they are not our true names!
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THE AZAWAD TRAGEDY: DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION, EXTREMISM, AND THE NOMADS STRUGGLE FROM COLONIALISM TO THE PRESENT
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Since the colonial-era partitioning of territories and the drawing of arbitrary borders without regard for the historical and indigenous rights of the peoples of the Sahara, the people of Azawad—nomads, herders, and native communities—have endured marginalization and the unlawful seizure of their lands.
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A DETAILED POST ON THE SERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AZAWAD AND TUAREG ISSUE
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It has become clear that the issue of Azawad and the Azawadi people, including the Tuareg, is a complex issue in which political, geographical and cultural circumstances intersect. The demands for independence or autonomy for the Azawad region in northern Mali are not just a regional dispute, but rather part…
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ENSLAVEMENT OF THE LAND AND PEOPLE – MALI IS AN EXTENSION OF THE FRENCH COLONIAL SYSTEM
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Mali was not a national state in the modern sense, but rather a functional entity created to serve the French colonial structure.
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THE LOST IDENTITY IS MANIFESTED IN THE AZAWAD ISSUE
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The Azawad issue is not just a political or military conflict, but rather a story of searching for a lost identity in a world where the local is in conflict with the global, and privacy with globalization. Since the declaration of provisional independence in 2012 by the National Movement for…