Tuaregs community.

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Topic: Tuaregs community.

They are a group of people that live in the northern part of Africa and they occupy most parts of Chad, Mali and Niger. Half of the total population live in Niger and Mali, they speak the language Tamashek; they are nomads as they have no temporary home and they move together with their cattle in search for water and pasture for their cattle. They have roamed the Sahara desert for centuries.

In 1959, Muhammad Ali Ag Attaher wrote a letter to the French government asking for them to help in the disparity situation of the Tuaregs where the Mali and the Niger governments were both fighting for them (Chilson, 11,2013). They settled in a place known as Azawad a place where region began as a flood basin, of the Niger River and the also a desert. They are also associated with slavery as they used Niger slaves n the 1980s.

Their current socio-economic activity is live stock keeping and little farming as the region does not harbour favourable conditions for farming; they also took part in slave trade. The members of the community still do raid cattle from neighbouring communities, and they are still politically unstable and rebels still fight with the government. In the year 2012 they tried to create their own independent government but they ended up fighting with the Islam (Chilson, 70,2013).

The Apache are an Indian community that occupy most of West Texas; they are divided into two groups; the Lipians’ and Mescalaros’. Like the Tuaregs, the Apache lived a nomadic life, they did farming and they grew maize, beans and pumpkin. They also took part in cattle raiding against their adversaries the Comanche community.

In conclusion we see that the Tuaregs and he Apache communities have great similarities.

References:

Chilson, P. (2013). We Never Exactly Knew Where. New York: FP Foreign Policy Publishers.