Among the Tuareg, it is the veil that distinguishes between an adult and a young person. When one assumes adulthood, he can wear the face veil with a silver veil weight attached. A boy is given ...

R. Palmer, Governor of Gambia Colony, in Man for June. The Tuareg veil is undoubtedly ritual in origin but the only cult to which it can be referred is that of Mithras. Mithraic ritualistic ...

People of the Veil: being an Account of the Habits, Organisation and History of the Wandering Tuareg Tribes which inhabit the Mountains of Air or Asben in the Central Sahara. By Francis Rennell Rodd.

Outsiders often call the Tuareg “blue men,” a reference to how the indigo dye of their veils and turbans rubs off on their skin, merging man and veil into one. A young man’s first veiling is ...

While it is hard to assess the level of support for the methods of militant groups among all ethnic Tuareg, the nature of their grievances is broadly the same. Their forefathers largely subdued by ...

What's the link between European high fashion and the Tuareg, a semi-nomadic Berber group from Saharan Africa? A new exhibition at the National Museum of African Art highlights the story.