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Encyclopedia > Tin Hinan

Tin Hinan is following the legend the first leader to unite the Tuareg world and founded a kingdom in the Ahaggar mountains. She was both heroine and matriarch, and is believed to come from Tafilalt in the Atlas mountains, Morocco. The Ahaggar Mountains, also known as the Hoggar, are a highland region in central Algeria. ... A matriarch or clan-mother or chief is a mother, or other female person in a family who is responsible for the well-being of the clan or kinship. ...


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Matriarchal History and Archaeology *** The Berbers *** (188 words)
In Abalessa, the ancient capital of the Hoggar region, there is the tomb of the famous Tuareg queen Tin Hinan.
About this famous ancestress of the Tuaregs following story is told: Tin Hinan came in the company of her maid-servant Takamat from Tafilalet in South Morocco to the Hoggar.
The corpse of the famous Tin Hinan was found when the grave was excavated by archaeologists.
Women and Traditional Knowledge (1707 words)
Tin Hinan (literally ‘nomadic woman') is the name of the queen mother; a mythical ancestor and founder of the Tuareg language and culture.
Tin Hinan works with nomadic and semi-nomadic Tuareg and Fulani communities in pastoral areas in the north of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
The Tuareg consider women to be the repository of culture, and a guarantor of the unity and honor of the community.
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