Trans-Saharan trade
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Trans-Saharan trade is trade between North Africa and the rest of Africa that requires travel across the Sahara. Though this trade began in prehistoric times, the peak of trade extended from the 8th c
A building in Oualata, southeast Mauritania
The Bilma oasis in northeast Niger, with the Kaouar escarpment in the background
A 19th-century engraving of an Arab or Berber slave-trading caravan transporting sub-Saharan African slaves across the Sahara
Modern-day camel caravan near the Ahaggar Mountains in the central Sahara, 2006
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
Trans-Saharan trade
…Bono Manso and Bondoukou. Western trade routes continued to be important, with Ouadane, Oualata and Chinguetti being the major trade centres, while the Tuareg towns of Assodé and later Agadez grew around a more easterly route. The eastern trans-Saharan route led to the development of the long-lived Kanem–Bornu…
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