Souéloum Diagho, the contemporary Tuareg poet, comes from
Tessalit in the North of
Mali. His father is a
Tuareg and his mother a
Fula.
[In french: Peul; in ff, Fulɓe.] He is married and lived for a time in
Belgium. He is author and editor of the 2001 work ''Poésies touareg : le chant des saisons'' (Tuareg poetry: Song of the seasons), a collection of some 175 traditional poems.
Although primarily writing in French, he is in the tradition of Ghaylan ibn 'Uqbah, seeing the Tuareg as quintessentially Keltamacheq (speakers of
Tamasheq), nomads of the desert. His poems speak of the desert, a space swarming with life, palpitating like the heart of planet, the richness of its silence and the force of its people. He comments on our Western world and on our fears.
Notes
External links
Souéloum Diagho, the poet of the desert. (archived website)Souéloum Diagho, Poète touareg
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French-language poets
Living people
Malian poets
Malian male writers
Male poets
Tuareg
Fula people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Kidal Region
21st-century Malian people