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Index

this is the full contents of the book "Touaregs. Voix solitaires sous l'horizon confisqué." (Ethnies, Paris, 1996). Translated texts are linked.

 

The touareg "question", introduction : Hélène Claudot-Hawad

Map

Touareg fragmentation or the price of peace : Hélène Claudot-Hawad

 

The shattered country

Headturner : Betchan welet Wajira

The Touareg, swimmers in the infinite : Mohamed Ali ag Ataher Insar

To those who have distorted our destiny : Amuzar ag Eshim

Touareg mincemeat for an official dinner : Hawad

 

Just because of the coulour of our skin

Wounds : Issa Rhossey

Pogrom : three testimonies : Khama ould Attahir, Attaher ould Atta, anonyme

 

Gone to liberate the land : the betrayed hope of the fighters

We are watching in the night : Kidou

The revolution betrayed : Akli

Division is easy : Ghabdallah ag Khassan

I, young fighter, footsoldier of the revolution : Ouray ag Wanayer

 

To see further than the enemy, to mark new paths

If only one vein is left to me : Khalifa ag Elansari

To carry the burden together : Emeslag ag Elaglag

To invent our future ourselves : Hawad

I dont sell the desert : Kidou

 

To be no more or to be differently : the role of women

White well : Ghabdallah ag Oumbadougou

Women must fight beside men in equality : Dawsa welet Amayor

My house is my nation which is the whole world's house : Karsa welet Elghelas

When i had passed Akakus : Ghabdallah ag Oumbadougou

 

The inescapable demands of modernity ? The voice of the educated

To come out of the tunnel to see and be seen : Sidalamin

The illusion of importance : Sidi Mohamed ag Ichrach

The "they-say" people : Anon

 

Temust between the fronts or the broken outlines of "targuité" : Dahbia Abrous