Azalai
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The Azalai is a semi-annual salt caravan route practiced by Tuareg traders in the Sahara desert between Timbuktu and the Taoudenni salt mine in Mali, or the act of traveling with a caravan along that
A camel train traveling from Agadez to Bilma (Niger), 1985.
Slabs of salt from the mines of Taoudenni stacked on the quayside at the port of Mopti (Mali)
Rock salt at the market in Mopti. It is sold here in slabs, broken and weighed, and packaged into smaller amounts.
beza (front) and kantu salt in Fachi
Tuareg languages
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The Tuareg languages constitute a group of closely related Berber languages and dialects. They are spoken by the Tuareg Berbers in large parts of Mali, Niger, Algeria, Libya, and Burkina Faso, with sm
Page 247 of the 1951 Dictionnaire Touareg–Français, showcasing De Foucauld's meticulous handwriting accompanied by detailed illustrations of tasdest 'tent-pole' and other tent-building terms of the Kel Ahaggar.
