Challenges for pastoralism in West Africa from touareg niger Watch Video
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Description: This is a short film I made for Oxfam during an amazing, if tragic, journey through northern Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in 2005 at the height of a major drought. I met different groups badly affected by the drought including Fulani (also known as Fula, Fulbe or Peulh in Francophone countries) and Kel Tamashek (or 'speakers of Tamashek' as the groups known by outsiders as Touareg prefer to be called). Although these are people with distinct cultures they share similar problems as pastoralists -