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Driving towards Kousséri, the cameroonian port town which sits next to the capital of Chad, N'djaména, at the confluence of the Chari and Logone rivers I met two kinnin and I think that's a real scoop!
Kinnin are a very small ( about 600) population of Chad tuaregs.
They lost some typical tuareg traditions like the often blue indigo colored veil to cover their face (tagelmust) and they acquired polygamy (normally tuareg are monogams).
Descended from Berbers in the region that is now Libya, the Tuareg are descendants of ancient Saharan peoples described by Herodotus.
The Tuareg adopted camel nomadism along with its distinctive form of social organization from camel-herding Arabs about two thousand years ago, when the camel was introduced to the Sahara from Saudi Arabia.
Traditionally, Tuareg society is hierarchal, with nobility and vassals.

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