The early 1960s saw the end of colonial rule for many countries in West Africa and the Sahara Desert region in particular. While the independence of Mali, Niger, Algeria, and other countries in the ...

The passion and range of the Saharan Tuareg band’s music was somewhat lost in translation until their gig’s triumphant finale It wasn’t until the encore that Ousmane Ag Mossa invited a translator on ...

Ousmane Ag Mossa holds up a photograph of himself as a boy, pulling a tiny toy truck on a string across golden sand. Behind him, low adobe houses, walls and the odd green bush recede into the Saharan ...

All around Kidal, the Malian desert stretches in every direction. Endless horizons of rock and sand, barren and parched. This is the southwestern edge of the Sahara, the home of the Tuareg people, and ...

Tamikrest, virtually unheard of a few years ago, is building on the popularity of the Grammy-award winning Tuareg band Tinariwen, from the same region of Mali. They plan a European tour this winter to ...

Tuareg band Tamikrest are releasing a limited-edition live record Taksera just in time for Record Store Day, and they have made the track ‘Aratan N Tinariwen’ available to stream here. The album was ...

Case Oats in session and Rachel Stephens MBE, the first British woman to climb Everest. Gideon Coe sits in and pays tribute ...

This Slow Sunday, Cerys will help you escape up into the sky and across to the African desert, courtesy of Saharan rock band Tamikrest and author Simon Barnes. Show more This Slow Sunday, Cerys will ...