variants
or less commonly Touareg
plural Tuareg or Tuaregs also Touareg or Touaregs
: a member of a nomadic people of the central and western Sahara and along the middle Niger from Tombouctou to Nigeria
Examples of Tuareg in a Sentence
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In the lyrics, Moctar encourages the Tuareg people to not let their Tamasheq language become obsolete.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
Moctar’s lyrics, delivered in the Tuareg language Tamasheq, often address the plight of his people and of Saharan Africans more generally.
—Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 4 Mar. 2024
Funeral for Justice, however, grapples deeply with the issues facing Moctar’s home country of Niger and the Tuareg people.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
The Tuareg guitarist led his trio through a blistering performance that had the typically sedate Quad Stage crowd standing, stomping, and dancing their way through the performance.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
Drums are the only musical instruments common to all cultures in the world, from the Inuit people in the Arctic to the Tuareg nomads in the Sahara Desert, from the Bora tribes in the Amazon jungle to the Maasai people in East Africa.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
Equally important, however, was the Islamist and Tuareg militants' hasty withdrawal into northeastern Mali.
—Sebastian Elischer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2013
Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2024
Moctar’s lyrics, delivered in the Tuareg language Tamasheq, often address the plight of his people and of Saharan Africans more generally.
—Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 4 Mar. 2024
Funeral for Justice, however, grapples deeply with the issues facing Moctar’s home country of Niger and the Tuareg people.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
The Tuareg guitarist led his trio through a blistering performance that had the typically sedate Quad Stage crowd standing, stomping, and dancing their way through the performance.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
Drums are the only musical instruments common to all cultures in the world, from the Inuit people in the Arctic to the Tuareg nomads in the Sahara Desert, from the Bora tribes in the Amazon jungle to the Maasai people in East Africa.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2023
Equally important, however, was the Islamist and Tuareg militants' hasty withdrawal into northeastern Mali.
—Sebastian Elischer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2013
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“Tuareg.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Tuareg. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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