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**jurnalkduo** · 09-12-2011, 09:28 AM

National Geographic 09/11 edition has an interesting article on the Tuareg: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...areg/gwin-text
Lost Lords of the Sahara

Ruggedly independent,the Tuareg struggle to survive amid the turmoil of North Africa. By the fire I notice that the medic and another man bear the common ethnic

features of the African interior—dark brown skin, kinky hair, and broad noses. Two

men have olive complexions, smooth black hair, and sharp Mediterranean noses.

The other three are a mixture of all the traits. Regardless of skin color, a surprising

number have topaz blue eyes. This genetic grab bag suggests one of the riddles of

the Tuareg, who have always considered themselves a people apart yet for centuries

took slaves from other desert tribes and intermarried with them. The result is an

ethnic group distinguished primarily by its common language, Tamashek, which is

related to Berber tongues spoken in Algeria and Morocco.

09-12-2011, 09:28 AM	#2
jurnalkduo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 390 Senior Member	National Geographic 09/11 edition has an interesting article on the Tuareg: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/20...areg/gwin-text Lost Lords of the Sahara Ruggedly independent,the Tuareg struggle to survive amid the turmoil of North Africa. By the fire I notice that the medic and another man bear the common ethnic features of the African interior—dark brown skin, kinky hair, and broad noses. Two men have olive complexions, smooth black hair, and sharp Mediterranean noses. The other three are a mixture of all the traits. Regardless of skin color, a surprising number have topaz blue eyes. This genetic grab bag suggests one of the riddles of the Tuareg, who have always considered themselves a people apart yet for centuries took slaves from other desert tribes and intermarried with them. The result is an ethnic group distinguished primarily by its common language, Tamashek, which is related to Berber tongues spoken in Algeria and Morocco.
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