Tuareg - 1810s description by G. F. Lyon

 Salvete Omnes,

in the past I mentioned the Tuareg people of the Sahara/Sahel - Western and North Africa.

I am reading the a book by George Francis Lyon  (1796-1832) about his travels, 1818-1820,in African Sahel. 

Lyon left a description of the Tuareg, the nomads of the Sahel, who like the Tatars in the eastern Europe prior to their conquest by the Russians, were slavers and lived of  long distance trade across vastness of Sahara etc. 

while Project Gutenberg has a book - People of the Veil - to download and peruse - on the history and anthropology of the Tuareg of the Airs. 

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Valete

West African pre-colonial equestrianism

 Salvete Omnes,

a short summer entry - as Niger is in the news and Sahel could be engulfed in a new war, apart from the Tuareg and Arab Islamic groups and bands already in vicious battles with their Hausa, Fulani etc neighbors and tribal groups of Sahel black Africa. 

I finally got a copy of a book by Robin Law - The Horse in West African History. I have started reading it slowly, every page containing some interesting material and quoted primary sources. So this will be a journey into the African equestrian & pre-colonial history. 

Meantime a little entry on the Dongola Horse - or the horse of ancient Nubia and Sudan.

enjoy 

Valete