Human Security

The night has just worn its black coat with bright stars. My grandmother Aziza and I sit on the cold soft dunes of the Algerian desert. She points with her fingers to the wide sky and starts to explain the Saharawi astronomy.

Prior to Spain’s colonisation of Western Sahara, this western part of the Sahara desert in North-West Africa had been historically inhabited by a society of desert nomads pasturing their herds of camels and growing crops.