What Do You Know About The Tuareg Of The South-Western Sahara?
A member of itinerant Berber-speaking people of the south-western Sahara in Africa arecalled Tuareg . Their feudal and matrilineal culture is divided into five classes. There are nobles; clergy, vassals, artisans and laborers, labor class was formally known as slaves. They are parted into two parts according to their living-northern Tuareg and southern Tuareg. Northern Tuareg live in true desert of Sahara as well as the southern Tuareg live in steppe and savanna area. The members of this kind of nomadic berber-speaking people or Tuaregs are habitually engaged in guiding, agriculture and convoying caravans across their territories. They are also involved in raiding neighboring tribes. Tuareg combine many pre-Islamic formal procedures and customs with Sunnite Muslim beliefs. The droughts of 1970s and 1980s reduced the numbers of tuareg and corroded their conventional way of life.
