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| Alhousseyni Ag Midi:
‘When I’m in the bush during the rainy season, that is the best time of my
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Alhousseyni Ag Midi, age 12, from Tintihigrene, Gao region"When I’m older, I want only to become a man of means, a man who
has a lot of animals. Animals give us milk, which is our basic food, and also meat and
hide and money. If I had one wish it would be to have many animals: cows, goats, camels,
donkeys, and sheep."
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| Aboubacrine Ag Hamalek sells
souvenirs at the Hotel Relais Azelac, Timbuktu |
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Aboubacrine Ag Hamalek, age 12, souvenir seller, Timbuktu"I’m very
proud of being one of the Tamachek people, because we are always the strongest. You might
find some Tamacheks who are settling here in the town, but the true Tamacheks are always
in the desert. When I grow up I would like to go back to the desert to help my people.
Maybe I will be able to teach them things they don’t know, or perhaps I could build a
school for them. I want to be a teacher; to be able to teach my people in the desert.
I’ve never been anywhere else: only the desert and Timbuktu." |
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