It's not every day that a vacation souvenir changes a life, much less the lives of a community half a world away. But that's exactly what happened when San Francisco attorney Ann Elston's husband, ...

Color illustrations, including front cover. The article focuses on two different enterprises responsible for the global marketplace of Tuareg silver jewelry: the Koumama family of Agadez and their ...

Since joining Edun as creative director in April 2013, Danielle Sherman has made it her mission to collaborate with artisans in Africa for special pieces each season. For spring 2015, she scouted ...

Introduction --- Imazighen : people of Tin Hinan --- Tifinagh : Twareg alphabet and art --- Taneghelt: the twenty-one crosses --- Wearable art: Tuareg men's adornment --- Wearable art: Tuareg women's ...

Romanticized by European colonizers as fierce, camel-riding warriors swathed in indigo veils, the semi-nomadic Tuareg people of North and West Africa for centuries coaxed a livelihood from their harsh ...

FOR COSMOPOLITAN music lovers, the Tuareg people burst onto the scene in 2001 when their most prominent musical group, Tinariwen, kicked off an internationally acclaimed music festival outside of ...

Author and National Geographic Traveler writer Donovan Webster reports from a recent visit to Niger, where he attended the annual Tuareg Festival. Read his first post here. With a sartorial tradition ...

Donovan Webster, a writer for both National Geographic and National Geographic Traveler and author of the upcoming book, Meeting the Family: One Man’s Journey Through His Human Ancestry, is just back ...