Poète en morceaux, morceaux de poète by Amalia Dragani

“…This article focuses on the somatization of the creative process through the exploration of the ethnographic case of Tuareg poets. By analysing two corpora—the texts in which the poets describe themselves as “inspired” and as “prey to inspiration” and the informal descriptions given by “flesh and blood” poets of the creative process in moments of informal conversation and during my observation of the creative act—I was able to identify two distinguishing features. …”
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Sahara en mouvement by Dominique Casajus

“…In the same way, the political thinking of the Tuareg in Mali and Niger is not so far remote from the thinking of the Moorish scholars of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. …”
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The Conflict in Mali: Causes, Actors, and Challenges by Wardah Shahid

“…Historical grievances, particularly among the Tuareg in the north, have fueled recurrent violence, exacerbated by the involvement of jihadist groups like Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and foreign actors such as France, the UN, and Russia’s Wagner Group. …”
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L’ethnographie militaire aux origines de la « politique berbère » du protectorat français au Maroc (1912-1915) by Mathieu Marly

“…It was only beginning in 1915 that members of the military called on representatives from the academic world to help shape their own conceptions of “Berber customs,” as inspired by their experiences with the Kabyle and Tuareg populations.…”
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“Urban by nature”: The Sokoto jihadist approach to urban planning by Stephanie Zehnle

“…The article will thus finally analyze the Sokoto utopia of a completely sedentarized and urbanized Muslim state—a policy propagated both against fellow Fulbe pastoralists and mobile Tuareg allies. This study engages with Sokoto Jihadist urbanization in their theories and practices in the first half of the 19th century and unfolds the Jihadist claims to be “urban by nature.”…”
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