Word: tuareg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daisy majored in mathematics and minored in anthropology, turned out a 60-page honors thesis on the effect of warfare upon the social organization of the Tuareg cattle herders in the Sahara. Yet she was equally proficient in courses ranging from Schiller to statistics. She has won a Woodrovv Wilson Fellowship, which she will use to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology at Yale. There, she assumes, her succession of A's "will all be over." But no one who knows Daisy will bet on that...
...Bamako less than five hours when he suddenly decided he had urgent business elsewhere and flew home. That left only Ben Bella and Keita, who could not leave because he was the host. They talked alone for two hours, and one of their subjects, presumably, was Mali's Tuareg nomads, who, with Ben Bella's support, recently staged an abortive rebellion against Keita. Next day, the two flew down to Conakry for another brief chat with Tour...
...Tuareg Saying...
...Iforas rebels represent only a fractious fraction of some 500,000 "blue men" who range the Sahara from Mauritania to Libya. Nominally white, they get their colorful name from the dark blue robes they wear. The robes are impregnated with a cheap dye that rubs off and stains the Tuaregs' skins a glossy, metallic blue. The Tuaregs seem to be related to the Phoenicians, write with an ancient alphabet called tifinagh that can be read from right to left, left to right, up or down. But they use it often to compose erotic poetry or scrawl obscenities on lonely...
...Parliament. In the big coastal cities, a few of the 200,000 Europeans still remaining in Algeria lined up with turbaned Arabs. In the rugged Aurès Mountains, blond and blue-eyed Berbers gathered at the polling places. In the Sahara, "the veiled men in blue" of the Tuareg tribes and the secretive Mozabites cast their ballots beneath the feathery palms of remote oases...