Tuareg's Air Festival revives dreams of tourism in troubled Niger

A Tuareg dancer performing to the ‘rytme of the tende’, a drum made out of a mortar, during the Air Festival in Iferouane recently. — Photos: AFP

Dishes of spit-roasted lamb were served and the sound of electric guitars echoed across the pink Saharan dunes towards the Air Mountains.

“It’s like playing at home,” said musician Oumara Moctar.