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Tahoua

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Tahoua (tou`ä), town (1988 pop. 51,607), SW Niger. A major administrative center, it is a farming community and trade center frequented by Tuareg Tuareg or Touareg (both: twä`rĕg), Berbers of the Sahara, numbering c.2 million.
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 pastoral nomads. Gypsum and phosphates are mined. The city was a refugee center during droughts in the 1970s. A teacher-training school is in Tahoua.


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Gabus identified such a cloth with figurative motifs as tera woven by nomadic Zarma weavers who live with the Hausa of Tahoua, 400km (249 miles) northeast of Niamey in Niger (1955:53, 1958:405 and inside covers).
7 million, especially in Agadez, Zinder, Diffa and Tahoua departments.
This style of heavy silver bracelet with multi-faceted ends is typically worn by women in the Tahoua region of western Niger.
 
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