The Tuareg: The Blue-Veiled Desert Warriors (Morocco & Algeria - Full Documentary)

Also known as the blue-veiled warriors of the desert, the nomadic Tuareg tribe of the impassable and vast Sahara is shrouded by mystery.
As a young anthropologist, Jeremy Keenan documented the lifestyle of a Tuareg family group living at the foot of Algeria's highest mountain; Mount Tahat, creating an intimate and important film about a traditional lifestyle under the threat of extinction.
The documentary series “Disappearing World” was originally broadcasted between 1970-1975.
As an anthropological landmark of its time, the series tells the story of traditional communities endangered by the modern world’s progressions.
The series stands as a historical document of daily life in remote and threatened societies, such as the Cuiva, Embera and Panare Indians of Colombia, the nomadic Tuareg of the Sahara, the Kurdish Dervishes and the Meo of China.
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[@medanemane]

Amazing documentary about amazing people. Thank you for sharing, from a Tuareg

[@vikingking71]

This is disturbing and horrific. Let's just all remind ourselves the degree of wealth, technology, and civility this culture, other Muslim cultures, and other matriarchies have reached.

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement, From where you say there are Touareg in morroco!?

[@tafneb3679]

Please correct the all videos are made in Algeria and you said morroco there are no Touareg in morroco you are giving false information.

[@tafneb3679]

The instrument of music is Imzad and its played only by woman Touareg and its protected by Algeria. Ps: it's only IN Algeria were is still existing

[@tahiatarguis]

Proud to be a Kel Ahaggar Tuareg from Algeria, we survive all odds, and so will our culture! But slavery is not as common of a practice anymore. And in the areas where it is, it involves rich and prestigious Tuaregs and is more so based on wealth.

[@abdelhadimegameud1816]

Please, I want you to respond to my comment and we can communicate. These are my ancestors and I live in the same area. There are people who have died and some of them are still alive. They were very happy when they saw the video

[@mikebarton]

Did any of them recognise Jeremy Keenan?

[@DragonDHunter]

Touareg in Morroco ? Are u kidding me? Most Touareg are in Algeria north of Mali and Niger and east of Libya

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

you said it yourself, ''most''. not all, a minority of tuareg does exist in morocco, they even have a palace enclave for them in the capital.

[@DragonDHunter]

@@psychopassisamasterpiece1997 u r known for stealing neighboring cultures. U have nothing to do with Touareg. I used "most" in case of forgetting other Sub-Saharan African regions in which live Touareg

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

​@@DragonDHunter touargs are amazigh, they are not sub saharan africans. wtf

[@DragonDHunter]

@@psychopassisamasterpiece1997 this proves u r ignorant. Mali for instance is a Sub-Saharan country

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

@@DragonDHunter two things, first, quote where i say otherwise sherlock. second, yes that's why Tuaregs want to create azwad and rejoin the magreb. colonial borders can go to hell

[@muhammadabouhechme3870]

I guess nomadic lifestyle is not coming to an end but to a beginning in this time & age. May they be blessed as surely they are not missing much from our spider web system.

[@MiraSarahIdir]

Thank you for this documentary. I disagree with lot of the points made here, I am half Imashaghen. But I appreciate the efforts and the share. I wish people understood that there were no borders before colonialism. People were able to travel more freely. Imashaghen are by definition nomads. So they lived all over including in Morocco and Algeria. We are all brothers, we are all mixed. No need to argue about things that don't matter. What matters is our actions and what we do with the opportunity to experience life. Be well, everyone.

[@2btpatch]

You put it so well. We miss these essentials sometimes.

[@facundoboms8955]

On what points do you disagree?

[@lilithcoraline2024]

Don't speak "Imashagen". The correct word is Imazighen (in the north Africa's amazigh languages) or Imajighen (in the Imouhagh people's [tuaregs] amazigh languages).

[@landonkrall4970]

absolutely incredible

[@francoisedandre1799]

Magnifique et pénétrant au plus profond de l'âme, ce reportage !

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmLbqpaootahasU

[@mikebarton]

Dr Keenan made this film in 1972. It followed on from the years he'd spent working there. His work on the people of Ahaggar was published in 1977 and reprinted a few years back. It's well worth your time.

[@harpseal9234]

Tthe tuareg have it bad these days . that place is a warzone now and the companys that mine there turned it from a beautiful wasteland to a toxic poisoned wasteland were trying to live there and rais a family means being poisoned and children being born with deformities . it is very sad .

[@martialkintu2035]

You never hear about these things in the mainstream media.

[@vikingking71]

I wonder why they never reached, naturally, a degree of wealth or technology great enough to defend their sovereignty just like other matriarchies.

[@r.pinheiro549]

So true and very sad

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmLbqpaootahasU

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

@@vikingking71 lmao

[@alyadnazawad8638]

Beautiful

[@singularity70]

fascinating way of life ..

[@BaibaVulgaris]

For a while yes

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmLbqpaootahasU

[@ike9854]

FANTASTIC DOCUMENTARY AND FANTASTIC PEOPLE AND LANDSCAPES.

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@poppetrurazvan3900]

Bine ati venit in Romania. Deocamdata😀Apa este foarte simplu de colectat. Se pune o țesatura de poliester cu tubulatura de țesatura capilară din poliester. Pe pământ. Pe față sunt nişte romburi din material plastic sau carbon care vibreaza sub acțiunea văntului. Aerul rece al nopții vor colecta apa obtinuta prin condensare în timpul nopții.Vă multumesc pentru imaginile superbe. Cu stimâ, Răzvan.😁

[@mikebarton]

Jeremy looking so much younger. Then again weren't we all.... 05:18

[@matthewmann8969]

The villages, named villages, communities, camps, towns, cities, and streets are not entirely a lost cause

[@BaibaVulgaris]

I am fascinated, but very depressing and saddening what they have to go through, slavery, famine, extreme poverty, so sad....

[@shelbourneking7068]

They kept slaves ,what do you by saying they went through slvery?

[@anthovision7048]

Being West African I see them as brothers

[@chakir348]

they are a mixed of north African amazigh dna and sub saharan African black

[@martialkintu2035]

Would you consider them as brothers if they enslaved you? I mean, just because they are black doesn't mean they are all nice people. They still have elements in their societies that should've been left back a century ago. I'm not suggesting that you should hate them instead (after all, they seem really hospitable), but I am suggesting that you don't take people of colour for granted just because they made people of colour. We are all human beings and we all have very bad traits. You, me, them and everyone regardless of colour.

[@Stick3x]

Fulbe (Fulani) Many West Africans are from North Africa. I accept all of you. Geno bless you my brother.

[@Stick3x]

@@rastalion1746 Fulani are not originally from West Africa. Wanna see my DNA in more professional Gedmatch models prove you wrong? LMAO

[@rastalion1746]

Damiin Ñande Jallo fulani are mostly west african. Show your results. Prove it.

[@mekolashelton6320]

It is nice to know that slavery is not as prominent as they spoke of and that your culture survived

[@naktayb5308]

😥😥😥😥😥

[@2btpatch]

I find the tone of the commentator somewhat condescending: "The family makes leather junk which they sell to tourists." It adopts such a white point of view that these people are unfortunate.

[@alexanderakpaanyebe899]

The late afeni shakur the mother of hip-hop icon is a tuareg accentry

[@user-bn7jd4st9s]

Some information about my people ‏Firstly we’re not tribe,we’ar nation contains many tribes and Non-tribal societies, and yah there is black Touareg put in general we are not black nation ‏and also “kel tmashaq”have been An independent nation that rules its lands in tribal sultans before french colonialism ‏colonial France divided their lands among the nations around them because of their strong resistance to it, without giving them any piece of their land to govern it،The Tuareg found themselves colonized again by other peoples and therefore they revolted ‏especially in Mali and Niger, where they were subjected to more ethnic discrimination ‏Therefore,the Tuareg revolted again and again in these countries, and after every revolution, many of them are displaced because of the difficulty of living for them in their lands there dueto the reprisals against them in sub-Sahara Thus,the Tuareg Issue continued without any solution

[@lamianajjar9527]

Totally right sister! Adding to your information that in this documentary there are a few things that has been described in a way that I dislike about our nation, There were woman leading our nation, a huge knowledge of natural medecine, a nation that knows the real meaning of freedom, pride and independence, harmony and respect of Mother Nature, and LOYALTY.

[@movieguy7650]

Wahb Ibn Munnahbeh says they are hamites but ok

[@harith4326]

@@movieguy7650 facttts. its common sense that original desert inhabited are darker tone people. The ancestors of the veiled Berbers entered the Maghreb from the riff region of Abyssinia a few thousand of years ago according to Ibn Khaldun. Being traders they were found in Somalia as late as the 12th century AD and stretching to the West African and Moroccan coasts."

[@harith4326]

@ⴰⵙⴰⴼⴰⵕ ⵏⴰⵔⴰⵖⴰⵙ the letters in your name remind me of sabaean script

[@harith4326]

@ⴰⵙⴰⴼⴰⵕ ⵏⴰⵔⴰⵖⴰⵙ which Scriptures the per m heru, Mishnah, Tanakh or Quran? Am I a jin or devil 😈

[@jeh5176]

This slavery system being practiced in this day and age has got me disturbed.

[@r.pinheiro549]

AuntRuby'sDaughters this is an old documentary though...but still I agree.

[@badmanthings]

Its a very different form of slavery compared to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, since their entire society cant function without it. So most of the time they treat their slaves like their own family members. But yeah, i agree that all forms of slavery are bad eventually...

[@Hichamouallaf]

@@badmanthings Maybe few treat the slaves like their own family but the most of Tuaregs orTawarik as in arabic like any other islamic society they treated their slaves very harshly for hard work and sexual pleasure.Trans-atlantic slave trade was bad and lasted for around 200 years but islamic slavery lasted 1500 years and still exist now days in libya and mauritania.the last slaves open market was held as recently as 1962 in saudi arabia.

[@user-bn7jd4st9s]

stefano hash‏I am a Tuareg woman, and this is not true that slavery still exists, rather it is a thing from the past. and Many societies in West Africa and outside Africa, including black societies, participated in it. It is wrong to hold the Tuareg alone to be responsible for the history of slavery there. It is also not true that there was sexual enslavement to previously enslaved women, but were mostly nannies or wives of enslaved men ‏and Their children are raised with the children of the tribal families and treated as members of the family, even though slavery remains slavery,In spite of the Islam’s previous legislation for Sexual slavery that is not acceptable in the Touareg culture, as the Tuareg”al fagetn” clergy forbade this legislation and also in our culture the woman does not accept polygamy nor that her husband shares the bed with another woman Also, the Touareg culture is an equestrian culture that carries a man a lot of moral responsibility towards his actions and sex is a taboo in our society and also if there was this kind of enslavement all the Touareg would become black and this did not happen in the tribal society,Most of the black Tuareg descended from either the strains of the formerly enslaved or the society of the "enhdn” the makers, they specialize in making all the necessities of living and jewelry in the desert. They are also musicians and some of them were teachers. The tribes were depended on them and paid them for their work,and They were never slaves،

[@zwareshag7757]

@@Hichamouallaf its not "Islamic" its just slavery. like Islam is the first to abolish slavery www.alhakam.org/how-islam-abolished-slavery-leaving-no-loopholes/

[@mycologicill]

@12:25 noooooooo

[@MuhammadAnwar-yn7fo]

Why do they choose to live in desert.

[@helenkeller78]

Donť miss the concert, mono chord min 31

[@mahmoudchakerrighi1369]

Les tousreg Sont en algerie lybie Níger Mali tchad Pas Au maroc

[@slipinn]

Bad volume.

[@yakakay8686]

But there are no touareg tribes in morroco nighthere in Mauritania...

[@AbyNeon]

Very nice documentary about1400 years of Jihad....opposed to what instead has happened in the same 1400 years in Europe .

[@bobipapy2404]

❤💋❤💋

[@amandadassonville4043]

I don't see any blue people. 💙🐝

[@NarcArtTherapy]

People from the west tend to think of their views in absolute terms, instead of the actual fact that they are extremely relative. And limited. That's why we should explore other cultures. It keeps us from being rogid in our beliefs.

[@rabbithare381]

5:29.."I've been studying THESE PEOPLE"........that's very degrading..

[@patrickkelly9110]

In what way is that degrading? I would have thought the opposite

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

Only through the modern overly race sensitive lenses. He has been studying the social and cultural structure of these people. You can study finns, dutch, japanese or tuaregs. There is nothing degrading about it.

[@zenoubaal3344]

There's a huge mistake in this documentary, Tuaregs exist only in Algeria, Libya, Tchad, Niger and Burkina Faso, there is no Tuaregs in Morocco, in Morocco and where I live there is only "Sahraouis" people from the south and they have different customs than Tuaregs, its a completely different people !!

[@charlienairn783]

I can’t see anywhere in this film where it suggests there are Tuareg in Morocco. Whoever may have posted the film on KZbin (‘Tracks’? Who are they?) may say that but surely the film doesn’t?

[@zenoubaal3344]

@@charlienairn783 They have to erase Morocco from the title, people can misunderstand and think there is Touareg in Morocco. I am Libyan and a lot of my culture is always stolen by Morocco and mistaken for Moroccan culture

[@charlienairn783]

@@zenoubaal3344 Well SURELY you must contact ‘Tracks’ (who seem to be some kind of holiday-destination website) and ask them to do what is right and tell the truth. Their email address is in their intro. You obviously know very much more about this than I do. So get Tracks to correct any error they may have made - the intro is entirely theirs and nothing whatsoever to do with the famously-reliable Granada TV who made this film. Granada also broadcast the magnificent ‘World in Action‘ every week for 35 years.

[@ayoubtassili7720]

.There are no Touareg in Morocco, the Touareg are present in Algeria and Libya from the Arab countries, there are in Morocco only the Berbers Amazigh and the Arabs there are no Touareg in Morocco

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

wrong, fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touarga there is a palace enclave just for them in the capital, how can you claim there aren't any in morocco? wtf

[@amineaourid9329]

There were a lot but most have either moved to cities or moved to Algeria or Mali but you can still find a small amount

[@psychopassisamasterpiece1997]

just an advice but what you just said is stupid, tuaregs are amazigh

[@yasmineelboubsi6038]

@@psychopassisamasterpiece1997 There are more Spaniards in Morocco, should we put them as an official ethnicity?

[@11secghia]

thumbs down in 3 seconds..... is this the bbc?

[@noufelouafi8313]

Tuareg in Morocco are u serious,,,???? Their is no tuareg in Morocco they are all in Algeria Mali Libya and Niger

[@rayaneloulou98]

There's no touareg in Morroco....

[@tafneb3679]

Ya trye the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@m.kamedyoussouf8163]

There in the marocoooo are tuareg

[@wewewowo960]

Tuareg morocco ? Impossibles tuareg was from Libya Niger south Tunisia North Mali Algeria and north Burkina Faso

[@user-gr2Algeria]

Yeah there is no tuareg in morroco they are eager to find real identity by stilling other countries history and culture

[@yiwan2698]

Tuareg in Morocco is a big scam used to fool tourists. Tuareg inhabit only a region from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.

[@tafneb3679]

@@user-gr2Algeria Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement, kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmLbqpaootahasU

[@cocothefly]

Touareg don't exist in Morocco. Fake title.

[@hammou1312]

cocothefly they do

[@RPNDWORLDWIDE]

They are in the South

[@salsabilmina9632]

They exist man !!!

[@soundwave631]

@@salsabilmina9632 I guess he's technically right? Tuareg is generally ascribed to the Tamazight people inhabiting the Algeria, Libya, Niger, and Mali area. There ARE Tamazight (or Berbers) living in Morocco, they just wouldn't technically be called Tuareg. Although I'm pressed to not believe that was what he meant and was instead trying to push an anti-berber sentiment online so that he could 'discredit' the existence of western sahara or something.

[@joaosoares3349]

Yes they live in the south of Morocco

[@ceegee23]

These are same ancient red/blonde haired people who were builders of megaliths ancient remnants of the aboriginal connection of old tribes!

[@tafneb3679]

Tha all videos is in Algeria and he said morroco?? There is berber in marroco but they no way are Touareg

[@richardcalloway320]

The black berbers the original berbers

[@poppetrurazvan3900]

Apa este simplu de colectat. Se pune o tet

[@anteversus8471]

What is this stuff? There are no Tuaregs in Morocco or Tunisia, they are found in Algeria and Libya on the North African side, they are the Gétules and Garamantes of antiquity. And they are even more numerous in Mali, Niger and a little in Burkina Faso.

[@charlienairn783]

And the film doesn’t say or suggest that there are Tuareg in Morocco - only whoever may have put the film on KZbin, presumably without having actually looked at the film!

[@jusdorangedekiwikiwi6574]

Touareg in Morocco??? Thats not true The touaregs live in algeria, Libya, mali and niger. Full stop

[@amineaourid9329]

THere are Touaregs in Morocco but a very small number, there used to be a lot but most migrated to Algeria or Mali or they moved to cities, this is because there are issues in the Sahara portion of Morocco so that's why most had to stop living there, but you can still find Touaregs in Morocco living the traditional way. There are also many people in Morocco who live in cities that are decent of touaregs, we call them Twarga

[@jusdorangedekiwikiwi6574]

@@amineaourid9329 الله يعفو عليك سيدي، غير خلينا من الخروطو ديالك 😁👍

[@mounirzebiri6983]

@Roselyne Walter since when u have desert lol stop imagining stop😂😂

[@tafneb3679]

There is no Touareg in morroco

[@tafneb3679]

@@amineaourid9329 totally false the Touareg they never been in the north or morroco

[@dady9558]

Il n'y a pas de touareg au maroc

[@TreeBug88]

Narration is dreadful

[@rocknrolldeaths]

I disagree I think its brilliant you are probably used to the modern rubbish docs hosted by a dumb celeb but here there is a deep understanding and knowledge in this doc

[@teemadarif8243]

I totally agree.

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@saminfab7801]

Tuareg in Morocco?! 😄 What a joke 😄😄

[@bdne.0066]

change your title, I'm moroccan and sick to see these comments from algerians, we don't claim to have any tuaregs in our country!!!! keep them!!!!

[@JesusIsTruthAndWayAndLife]

I am touareg and I do not understand you! I would buy you new VW SUV if you change your mind and let us in...

[@tohwasworld3297]

The Moors-Berbers amazighn are black people. The European colonizers know that but dont understand what happened when the Turks and jelous arabs who were not really following islam deen correctly came into the land.

[@marytrusel4885]

just cant help being racist hmmmmmm

[@KirsySlane]

America's

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,

[@tafneb3679]

Totally false the Touareg are in Algeria 🇩🇿, 🇲🇱 Mali,Mauritanie 🇲🇷, Niger 🇳🇪, Libye 🇱🇾 uniquement,