Tinariwen, the message facing the rise of “fear”

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It is three hours by road from Tamanrasset, at the foot of the assekrem, one of the high plateaus which dominate the Hoggar, that Abdallah ag Alhousseini spoke about the future, the present and the past of Tinariwen. Forty years earlier, the guitarist and composer born in 1968 in northern Mali moved to the big city in the Algerian Sahara and discovered Ibrahim ag Alhabib and Alhassan ag Touhami, the same people who had just founded with Intayaden the flagship group of the ishumar movement. , that of the young unemployed Tuaregs who left the desert for the cities, and who…