Ansari is a beautiful poem and song by Tartit, a Tuareg group from Mali.

Hopefully I will find time soon to transcribe and translate it. I thought I would post it in advance of translation because it’s been stuck in my head lately as I read the news about Libya.

I mentioned the Tuareg rebels in 2007. Interviews from 2009 with a Tuareg group called Tinariwen give more insight into their struggle, including time spent training in Libya; it showed up in the Music of Resistance series.