Pierre Boilley spoke against the manicheist and pessimistic mink who wanted the Tuaregs of Mali, and in particular the Touaregs de l’Adagh, whose subject he had been studied, to have no other future than ‘freedom in insecurity or peace in coercion’. It thus raises in an exemplary manner the question of state and power in African societies. This is because nomadic societies, because of their relationship to the ever-moving space, give up...