Travelling with Tuareg

Travelling with Tuareg captures on screen this fabulous desert landscape, home of the fabled Tuareg ‘blue-veiled warriors of the Sahara’. Jeremy Keenan first came to live amongst them in 1964. In this film, 40 years on, he travels with them through their mesmerising Saharan domain, recalling its discovery by European travelers and explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially its rock art and other prehistoric remains. But, above all, Keenan is travelling with old friends – from the lunar, 3,000 metre-high mountains of Ahaggar to the impenetrable scarps of the Tassili-n-Ajjer, re-living old memories and discovering just how much of their lifestyle had changed in the intervening years. Welcomed by Tuareg wherever he went, Keenan was amongst other things serenaded by Tuareg women, shown a camel charge by tribal warriors and invited to a circumcision ceremony.