A Tuareg nomad stands near a 13th-century mosque in Timbuktu, Mali, March 19, 2004. Just as Timbuktu with its exotic staccato name is part of the lore of the Sahara, this same mystery cloaks the ...

In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the ...

The music of Mali's Tuareg people is music of resistance. Master traders of the Sahara desert for millenia, they've never enjoyed significant political power, and their musical culture reflects ...

Author and National Geographic Traveler writer Donovan Webster reports from a recent visit to Niger, where he attended the annual Tuareg Festival. Read his first post here. With a sartorial ...

Much like the countenance of the Sahara itself–with its long chains of sand dunes that seem to shift with each movement of sun and shade–the character of the festival also changes by the hour ...