Etymologically derived from the Arabic word translated as "way", the Tuaregs are a nomadic people of the Sahara Desert comprising large areas of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Sudan in a geographical area that extends from the Atlantic ocean to the Red Sea crossing North Africa from east to west. Omara Mocbar - Bombino - was born in the town of Tidene, Niger, in 1980 and ten years later he had to emigrate with his family to neighboring Algeria due to the harsh Tuareg unrest that occurred basically in Niger and Mali and that lasted almost ten years. In 1997, back in Agadez, he turned himself as a professional musician. Bombino has become, together with Amadou & Mariama among many others, the main ambassadors of the path started by the legendary Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, carrying the message and sounds of the desert around the world - Desert Blues - music of the Sahara and the peoples of the Sahel and that has strongly revitalized by young bands like Tinarawen and Songhoy Blues. The message is the fight and activism for the civil rights of the Berber people, nomadic people without a status with an ancestral past and a culture transmitted orally by the generations who have lived for centuries in that area of the Sahel in the north of the African continent.