Moussa Ag Amastan

Male, Deceased Person

1867 – 1923

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Who was Moussa Ag Amastan?

Musa Ag Amastan was the Amenokal or chief of the Kel Ahaggar Tuareg in 1900. He negotiated a peace treaty with the French.

Sources:

⁕Maurice Benhazera, Six mois chez les Touareg du Ahaggar, Algérie, 1908

⁕Angèle Maraval-Berthoin, Chants du Hoggar, L'Édition d'Arts, Paris 1924

⁕Ghoubeïd Alojali, Histoire des Kel Denneg avant l'arrivée des Français, Copenhague, 1975

⁕Paul Pandolfi, « In Salah 1904 – Tamanrasset 1905 : la double soumission des Touaregs Kel-Ahaggar », Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 38, no 149, 1998a, p. 41-83 [texte intégral]

⁕Paul Pandolfi, Les Touaregs de l’Ahaggar. Sahara algérien, Paris, Karthala, 1998b

⁕Lionel Galand, Lettres au Marabout. Messages touaregs au Père de Foucauld Paris, Belin, 1999, 256 p.

⁕Jeremy Keenan, The lesser gods of the Sahara : social change and contested terrain amongst the Tuareg of Algeria, Taylor & Francis, 2004

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Born
1867
Ethnicity
  • Berber people
Died
1923

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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