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Mauritania
2009.06.30
The first camp I stayed at, the soil was rocky... one of the most amazing place on earth to me.... Sahara.
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The first camp I stayed at, the soil was rocky... one of the most amazing place on earth to me.... Sahara.
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Went for a walk with my friend Ely, and we found these mysterious rocks.
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Went for a walk with my friend Ely, and we found these mysterious rocks.
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These were everywhere on the dunes... carrying some stuff, and hiding in the sand.
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These were everywhere on the dunes... carrying some stuff, and hiding in the sand.
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Blue, they say, they wear blue, because when it comes to their home, their only roof is blue like the sky.
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Blue, they say, they wear blue, because when it comes to their home, their only roof is blue like the sky.
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The son of the Kamel Shepherd, i tried to explain to him a little bit photography, but well, just with hands... he posed without really realizing what i was doing, but we got a couple of pictures together,... this kid was alone living in the middle of nowhere, in the desert with his dad.
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The son of the Kamel Shepherd, i tried to explain to him a little bit photography, but well, just with hands... he posed without really realizing what i was doing, but we got a couple of pictures together,... this kid was alone living in the middle of nowhere, in the desert with his dad.
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Mauritania (Arabic: موريتانيا Mūrītāniyā), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest. It is named after the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast.
From the fifth to seventh centuries, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke. The Bafours were primarily agriculturalist, and among the first Saharan people to abandon their historically nomadic lifestyle. With the gradual desiccation of the Sahara, they headed south. Following them came a migration of not only Central Saharans into West Africa, but in 1076, Moorish Islamic warrior monks (Almoravid or Al Murabitun) attacked and conquered the ancient Ghana Empire. Over the next 500 years, Arabs overcame fierce resistance from the local population (Berber and non-Berber alike) and came to dominate Mauritania. The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War (1644-74) was the unsuccessful final effort to repel the Yemeni Maqil Arab invaders led by the Beni Hassan tribe. The descendants of the Beni Hassan warriors became the upper stratum of Moorish society. Berbers retained influence by producing the majority of the region's Marabouts—those who preserve and teach Islamic tradition. Many of the Berber tribes claimed Yemeni (and sometimes other Arab) origin: there is little evidence to suggest this, though some studies do make a connection between the two.[4] Hassaniya, a Berber-influenced Arabic dialect that derives its name from the Beni Hassan, became the dominant language among the largely nomadic population.
