The music of Mali's Tuareg people is music of resistance ... Fadimata Wallet is getting her ancient instruments ready. Her mostly female group named Tartit makes the instruments they play.

The instrument's discreet ... especially with renewed interest worldwide for Tuareg music, such as that of desert blues band Tinariwen. "The search for one's origins won't ever end," he says ...

In the Tuareg community in Niger, the women play a drum, made of stretched goatskin, known as the tendé. The skills and songs are passed down from mother to daughter, and are played at community ...

So, if it sometimes seems like Tuareg musical sensation Tinariwen came ... as connected to Africa’s rich relationship with the instrument as to Western rock and the blues (indeed, Tinariwen ...

music and actions of its members' everyday lives. "I am not a politician," Alhousseyni says. "We are artists. And yet we live in a time where the Tuareg can't really make these separations as ...

Five months ago, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar released a new album called Funeral for Justice, a furious, frenetic fusion of psychedelia, hard rock, and West African desert blues that left critics ...

Warriors and lovers - The instrument's discreet, refined lament has traditionally ... especially with renewed interest worldwide for Tuareg music, such as that of desert blues band Tinariwen. "The ...