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Day: March 1, 2011

Tinariwen, pt. 2

by Jon Western | 1 March 2011, 1644 EST | | 0 Comments

For those interested, Tinariwen was profiled in Steve Chandra Savale's six-part documentary on Music of Resistance that aired on AlJazeera English back in 2009. It provides a brief history of the Tuaregs and of the band:

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Tinariwen

by Jon Western | 1 March 2011, 0319 EST | | 0 Comments

Many of the "mercenaries" fighting on behalf of Gaddafi's regime in Libya are ethnic Tuaregs who fled conflicts in Mali and Niger in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1980, Gaddafi began encouraging the young...

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