Loading details…
about this song
This is one of the first songs which Ibrahim wrote in the 1980s with the help of Inteyeden, a friend and fellow founder-member of Tinariwen, who died of strange illness in 1994. The song is about the rebellion of 1963 in which a group of Touaregs from Adar des Iforas in northeastern Mali rose up spontaneously against the young independent state. The revolt was brutally suppressed by the Malian army and this suppression created a climate of antagonism which lead directly to the second rebellion of 1990.