The tea with the Tuareg people

[tomerodrique]

We are all the same just beautiful varieties of each other. I love the nomadic people and give them credit for living what is a hard life. But I understand they love the sand and their freedom. May they always be free.

[blueiguy1]

@Ethiopiaaaaa That's nice to know America tends to export our concept of race on the rest of the world .

[blueiguy1]

@Ethiopiaaaaa People forget Africa if the most diverse continent in the world. but in the west it is seen as either black south ,Arab north, with no real understanding of "culture". But in America if you look "black" then you are a certain way even though in Africa it is not the same . The reason why America is like that is because of our history --whites came from Europe--black came from Africa THATS IT and many people don't read the History of beautiful people like Berbers

[blueiguy1]

@Ethiopiaaaaa By the way I'm not Tuareg, but I am African American and I am slowly researching African cultures . Many African Americans don't know specifically what part we may be decedent from but every bit of research helps. I agree with your statement and hope to learn more about Ethiopia as well.

[blueiguy1]

@Ethiopiaaaaa This is true,All I would like to do is to know more about the entire continent and its economic development. I never had a problem with Europeans, its just I like history and culture of Africa.From religion to books and art its like lifting a rock and see a whole world that's never talked about. Do you live in Ethiopia? I have read about the Stone churches.

[blueiguy1]

@Ethiopiaaaaa Isn't the internet amazing it 3:00 PM in North Carolina LOL. Hope you can come to America one day with your family , there is a huge Ethiopian community in Washington DC they have resource center and tourism etc..Hope you stay well

[beduoasis]

this is a good video of Tuareg people back home I Am Tuareg Sanhadja Berber very few if that are here in the us from my Abu side of the family.

[AfriqueMafia]

Du bist ein Bastardt ... ;)

[eviltreemonster]

Hey, there Tuaregs look pretty cool. :)

[ghanboy]

Yeah, and the guy on the thumbnail(where you first clicked to come to this page) looks like Lil' Wayne.

[eviltreemonster]

Who is Lil' Wayne?

[ghanboy]

He is an American rapper. You can find him on wikipedia or google him.

[bzou10]

HAHA i saw the thumbnail too and it was the only reason why i wathced the video.

[krimosibi]

tuareg are berbers and blacks.

[travelingnomad1]

@krimosibi We are a combination of both im tuareg/fula and swahili on my dad side.

[MsDjessa]

@krimosibi Originally they aren´t black but theyr have been lot of black blood mixed to them so many of them are black these days, berber people look a bit like arabs.

[AFRICANCULTURE]

Tuaregs ARE FOUND IN WEST AFRICA AND SOUTHERN ALGERIA

[VraiDiouf]

Tuaregs are from Mali and Niger, there are also a few in parts of Chad and very Northern Nigeria.

[JoseMdeSLopes]

Well, they are from that region, but also from the south of Algeria. This documentary about the Kel Ahaggar, one of the confederations of Tuaregs are from the Hoggar (or Ahaggar in tamacheq).

[mariettaga]

It's good to see beautiful black culture also vast differences in them.

[bruin03]

lol

No such thing as black culture (singular) outside of the United States. There are many different cultures and oftentimes they don't identify as just "black." That's a western construct.

[Hottides]

Arabs refer to dark-skinned people as Black too. The Sudan means 'land of th Blacks' in Arabic. There's also a long and horrendous tradition of discrimination and persecution against Black Africans by Arabs that pre-dates the Western social construction of race.

[jacksonty1]

Yes, but there aren't any Arabs here are there? These are North African people, the Tuaregs.. with different shades of colour. I think the point being made here is one that emphasized African culture, and not 'Black'. Africa is a continent of diversity, the Tuaregs, Wodaabes are just one sign of that.

[jacksonty1]

By the way, many of those "Arabs who persecuted Blacks" were Blacks themselves. Sudan and Darfur is a good example today. Not to trivialize the persecution that did take place by Arabs, but let's keep some perspective too.

[krimosibi]

u have no idea.

blacks and arabs usually live together in peace

[Hottides]

Not in the Sudan, where Arabs are trying to exterminate Blacks. Throughout Arab lands, Blacks are derisively called Abid (slaves). Over the last 14 centuries, Arabs enslaved millions of Blacks, transporting them to the Middle East for use as laborers, soldiers and sex slaves, usually castrating the men, raping the women, and killing newborns at birth.

watch?v=pse7818NlQc

[krimosibi]

jeah but they don t do that because of their skin.

they do it because nobody cares.

i know it cuz my grandmother was half sudanese half arabic

[AfriqueMafia]

But in Sudan they are all black ... so what u talking about ? ...

[KushaDwipa]

Arabs were "the blacks" before other Arabs existed. The Arabians were described as dark brown and black like modern Sudanese Arabs up until the 14th century in writings. One relative of Mohammed even said when he saw white people settling near them , " I see these white folks have become very numerous ... I am thinking of killing half of them and leaving half of them to set up markets and to build roads. Whats your opinion?" by Ibn Abd Rabbu of Cordoba in El Iqd al Farid, vol 3., 9th c.

[TheUTubeRebel]

Yeah, just like the western people. Stop hating on us, Slavery is banned now and we don't call black people "Abid" (well at least not infront of them, but most Arabs don't use it and consider it like saying "nigger").

[Hottides]

Interesting how the Somali activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali recounts being called "Abid" in school in Saudi Arabia. Slavery STILL EXISTS in Mauritania and the Sudan, where Arabs and their descendants enslave and murder indigenous Africans.

When Arabs cease slandering, enslaving and murdering Africans, I'll jettison my hostility. Till then, they, like all racists, have my utter contempt and promise to strike at their foal oppression by any means available. DEATH TO ISLAM!!

[TheUTubeRebel]

Nope, most Arabs never use the term "Abid" anymore. If it was used, it was a long time ago like how it was normal to call black people "Negro" in the first half of the 20th century. Blacks should stop the hate towards Arabs because Arabs have nothing against Blacks.

Slavery still exists in Sudan and Mauritania? Good for them. So if two backwards Arab countries still practice it, it must mean they all do. Nice logic, ya wanker.

(cont).

[TheUTubeRebel]

And it's nice to see you hate Islam. You probably said that just to insult me. Well, for your info I'm NOT MUSLIM.

Go crawl back into your hole, afrocentrist.

[travelingnomad1]

@Hottides Most of north and south sudan are black it's just that the north are muslim and consider themselves arab though most are not. There are arab tribes in N. sudan but it's small compared to the whole population. I've worked with north and south sudanese people and honestly the north look like tuaregs and west africans while the south are nilotes and purely black in skin...it seems small but it's a big difference.

[Zzwaterfall]

@Hottides There has been racism against blacks even before then. Since Whites have touched this planet, they have shown a dislike for Blacks

[MsDjessa]

@Hottides True and this is sad, also weird concidering that the first man to sing the prayer call of muslims was black, a former slave from Ethiopia and if remember correctly a friend of Mohammed. It´s good that you pointed out that race is more of a social concept than biological truth. We are all the same and should be treated the same.

[EvilCosbySweater]

Power to the nomadic peoples of the world! Tinariwen rights to keep ya traditional.

[JoseMdeSLopes]

it was a very good thing: power to the nomadic people. They were and they are the real internet of the all people and all the times.

[orlamapat]

Welcome to hour friends arabics

Freedom to Algarve!Libertation from the Portuguese Republic.

Califado de Tavira - Al Orlmed Patrc Xaloc

Reino do Algarve

[ridler06]

where abouts are the people from ??

[JoseMdeSLopes]

The tuareg people is from Hoggar, and here we are near Tamanrasset. But I don't yf you speak about this people. JoséMdeSLopes