Mahamadou Souleymane, or Mdou Moctar as you may know him, is a guitarist from Niger who performs an eclectic style of amplified folk and psychedelic dessert rock endemic to the Tuareg tribes for which he belongs. The Tuareg people are a nomadic ethnic group, who primarily make a living as traders and whose merchant routes and cattle trade take them across multiple sovereign territories in Northern and West Africa, including Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria and Chad. The majority of Tuareg practice a specific version Islam known as Maliki and Tuareg men are distinguishable by the heavy veils they wear over their faces at all times, even while at home. In addition to trade, the Tuareg are known for their fighting prowess and have played significant roles in the many conflicts that have defined mo...
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