Songhai people
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The Songhai people are an ethnolinguistic group in West Africa who speak the various Songhai languages. Their history and lingua franca is linked to the Songhai Empire, which dominated the western Sah
Songhai woman at a festival
A stele found in Gao-Saney, now in the National Museum of Mali
A Gorom-Gorom market selling Songhai pottery.
Tuareg people
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The Tuareg people or the Tuaregs are an Amazigh ethnic group. They are traditionally nomadic pastoralists who principally inhabit the Sahara in an area stretching from southwestern Libya to southern A
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…sign a document, prohibiting the annual exchange of slaves from Timbuktu. By the mid-eighteenth century, the pashalik was declining. Around 1770, the Tuareg seized Gao, and in 1787, they entered Timbuktu, establishing the Pashalik as their tributary. The Zabarma Emirate was an Islamic state that existed…
A Tuareg in Algiers, Algeria, 2015
An artist's representation of Tin Hinan, an ancient queen of the Hoggar
Tuareg chief Moussa Ag Amastan arriving in Paris, 1910
A Tuareg man in Mali with his slave, 1974