As the last person in her family to learn and live the desert nomad ways of her Somali culture, Shugri Salh spent pivotal years of her youth under the guidance, love, and protection of her “ayeeyo,” ...

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Star Wars Outlaws: Desert Nomad Bundle Take on the nomadic lifestyle of desert planets by embracing materials the locals use to survive with the Desert ...

For centuries, the Tuareg people have lived as nomads, herding their animals from field to field just south of the Sahara Desert in Mali, near Timbuktu. "Our life is basically the animals we have, so ...

Her story is the stuff of fiction: the daughter of Somali desert nomads, Waris (“desert flower” in Somali) Dirie fled her family when she was about 13 to escape marriage to a man old enough to be her ...

When the sun rises over Rub’ al Khali, the world’s largest expanse of sand, the dunes glow gold like in a painting, rising up into the blue sky in a landscape resculpted by the wind overnight. The ...

The sounds Von Koerber uncovered deep in the desert find new resonances on re-imagined tracks of Footsteps in Africa Soundtrack: Nomadic Remix (BFM Digital; April 22, 2010). Brought together by ...