Mali Gallery

A Tuareg with his camel - French Colonial Exhibition

A Tuareg with his camel at The Colonial Exhibition at the Garden of Tropical Agriculture at Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside Paris, France. The Tuareg people are a large Berber ethnic confederation. They principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.
1907

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

West African Tuareg Horse Warriors

West African Tuareg Warriors, in traditional veiled headdresses, all mounted on fine horse and carrying spears and enormous shields. The Tuareg are a Berber nomadic pastoralist people, known as the People of the Veil'. The wearing of the Alasho veil by Tuareg men originates from the belief that such action wards off evil spirits. Date: circa 1910s

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

African would-be immigrants walk along roadway north of desert town of Bourfa in Morocco

African would-be immigrants walk along a roadway north of the desert town of Bourfa, some 500 km (310 miles) southeast of the Moroccan capital of Rabat, October 10, 2005. Morocco, under pressure to stem illegal immigration to Spain and accused by rights groups of mistreating migrants, began flying detained Africans to Senegal and Mali on Monday, government officials said. "We have already flown 140 illegal migrants back home in Senegal this morning and we are preparing a flight of 140 others also to Senegal soon from Oujda," a senior official told Reuters. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante - RP2DSFIGYNAC