The Effects of Globalization on the Tuareg Culture and Language: The case of Malian and Nigerian students’ communities living in Mostaganem

Abstract

To start with, the topic of the present research focuses on the effects of the globalization on the Tuareg culture and language. In fact, with the widespread of modernization, and evolution of the world, many things have been marked and changed in the life style of this society. It is argued, throughout this work, that the globalization aspect has a significant impact on the Tuareg’s life, habits, lifestyle and imitations of other cultures. Therefore, the goal of this work is to shed some light on the attitudes that the young generations of Tuareg in Northern Mali and Niger hold vis-à vis of their culture and languages. In fact, this research is basically founded on a collection of data from writings of spontaneous conversations recorded among a number of Nigerien and Malian Tuareg students. The analysis of the students’ productions attempts to demonstrate the way the culture and language of Kel-Tamachaq in Northern Niger and Mali were influenced by the effects of the globalization. The approach advocated in the analysis of our corpus is based on a mixed research method. In order to gather data from speakers of different age, level, attitude and gender, the goal was to find the possible impact of globalization that may have had on the culture and language of our participants. The findings did show that the young Tuareg people have been influenced by other cultures and languages to a great extent.