In Tuareg folklore, the hills are alive with the sound of jealous rage. Once upon a time, a tall lava plug called Mount Amjer spurned the advances of a volcanic vixen named Mount Tioueyin and refused to leave Mount Tahat, even though Tahat was already married to another mountain. So Tioueyin did what any self-respecting monolith would do: she left town. She moved 150 km southwest and took a suitor, Mount Iherhé, with her.
In
Sahara Man: Travelling with the Tuareg
(John Murray; 274 pages), British anthropologist Jeremy Keenan returns to that land of lusty...
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