Tag: Tuareg
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BREAKING THE SILENCE: Tuareg Marginalization & Ethnic Targeting in Burkina Faso
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I am deeply concerned about the ongoing marginalization and ethnic targeting of the Tuareg population in Burkina Faso—especially under the current coup-led government. These actions are fueling insecurity and deepening fractures in an already volatile region.
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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…
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FREEING INKINANE IS A MATTER OF JUSTICE
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FREEING INKINANE IS A MATTER OF JUSTICE Stopping Inkinane Ag Attaher is hindering the education, health and development of nomadic desert children. Freedom for #Inkinane Ag Attaher, a political prisoner in Niger for defending his people and ancestral territory. The military hates those who educate the poor, the simple, those…
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CULTURAL INVASION
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Cultural invasion is unlike any other type of invasion, for it does not come with tanks or planes. Rather, it enters into songs, stories, language, names, and daily customs, until, through frequent repetition, it becomes “normal” or even “authentic” in the eyes of today’s children. Identity is not just clothing…
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APRIL 6, 2012: AN UNBROKEN PROMISE
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When the **Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA)** declared independence, they weren’t just raising a new flag; they were rewriting a history written for decades in the blood and dreams of the Azawadis.