Tuareg
Narrator JIM DOUGLAS HENRY
For 1,000 years the veiled Tuaregs controlled the Sahara. Aristocra tic, nomadic ... they raided into, west Africa, taking captives to work their oasis gardens and tend their flocks.
In five years they have suffered the final blow to their society - the disastrous drought which has pinned them down around the few remaining wells and made them dependent on massive international aid. Such aid cannot last indefinitely. If the drought continues, can the once-proud camel-master change his way of life and scratch a living from the soil?
Film editor jim CRYAN
Directed and filmed by BRUCE PARSONS Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS (Bristol) Hope in the desert: page 4