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Born in 1973 in the Sahara, Alhousseini Anivolla is a nomad: "I have kept animals", he states his background in brief, "I observed the stars in the desert at night. My dromedary was my best friend. Then came the drought and I went to the city with my father in 1987. Since then, longing has become my companion."
The longing for the surroundings of his youth, the century-old rituals and traditions, the proud Tamashek ancestors for one. Moreover a longing for a way out of the universal trap all and everybody has landed in today.
The only safe harbour remaining – balsam on the emptiness left where once were home and belonging, source of hope that we can make it anyway – is music:
"The songs are a light shining in the heart, they comfort in a confused time. Melodies like the wind. The love of my country and traditions, the yearning of home; no one can take away those memories. The songs are there, they live, and they are perhaps the only thing that remains. They are light in the shade."
So Alhousseini Anivolla keeps singing these songs, old and new – the songs of his people, Kel Tamashek. Songs of respect for each other and nature, songs of hospitality. The Sahara and the Sahel. And, songs of the situation that evolved after the colonial period – the region exploding in one revolt after another, civil wars driving hundreds of thousands from their homes, international companies exploiting the resources area-wide – a region now in constant turmoil.
The longing for the surroundings of his youth, the century-old rituals and traditions, the proud Tamashek ancestors for one. Moreover a longing for a way out of the universal trap all and everybody has landed in today.
The only safe harbour remaining – balsam on the emptiness left where once were home and belonging, source of hope that we can make it anyway – is music:
"The songs are a light shining in the heart, they comfort in a confused time. Melodies like the wind. The love of my country and traditions, the yearning of home; no one can take away those memories. The songs are there, they live, and they are perhaps the only thing that remains. They are light in the shade."
So Alhousseini Anivolla keeps singing these songs, old and new – the songs of his people, Kel Tamashek. Songs of respect for each other and nature, songs of hospitality. The Sahara and the Sahel. And, songs of the situation that evolved after the colonial period – the region exploding in one revolt after another, civil wars driving hundreds of thousands from their homes, international companies exploiting the resources area-wide – a region now in constant turmoil.
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