2008

Koumama Inadan News June 2008

• Elhadji’S United States Trip Cancelled
• Report on the Koumama Family
• Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Why are Tuaregs called the Blue Men of the Desert?

Koumama Inadan News May 2008

• Update on Civil Unrest in Niger
• TuaregJewelry.com at the New York International Gift Fair
• New Jewelry Collection

Koumama Inadan News April 2008

• Elhadji's Visit to the United States
• Malim Ahoenoe Emene, a Tuareg Marabout
• Inquiring Minds Want to Know: What is the currency in Niger?

Koumama Inadan News March 2008

• Tuareg Jewelry Selling Wholesale
• Elhadji Koumama Opens a Niamey Shop
• Inquiring Minds Want to Know: How are stone pendants made?

Koumama Inadan News February 2008

• Jaba, a Master Artisan
• Tuareg Women Create A Leather Cooperative
• Inquiring Minds Want to Know: How is a veil weight made?

Koumama Inadan News January 2008

• Crisis in Niger
• Tuareg Artisan Raises His Daughter
• Inquiring Minds Want to Know: How Children Are Educated

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2007

Koumama Inadan News December 2007

• Tuareg Jewelry sale in San Francisco December 6 and 7
• Christmas with The Tuaregs
• Effes Bella—from gardener to "doctor"
• What kind of clothes do the tuareg women wear?

Koumama Inadan News November 2007

• Boutique Tuareg trunk show in Tiburon November 23 - December 1
• Christmas "shop" at 100 Pine Street in San Francisco
• Tuareg Jewelry now in retail stores
• Do Tuaregs have arranged marriages?

Koumama Inadan News October 2007

• Update on the Tuareg rebellion
• The Art of Being Tuareg Exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
• Cantor Arts Center Bookshop hosts a Tuareg Jewelry trunk show
• Do the Koumamas accept special orders?

Koumama Inadan News September 2007

• Our search for rock paintings and artifacts in the Sahara
• Hadija’s new grandson
• How do the silversmiths learn the art of making jewelry?

Koumama Inadan News August 2007

• Elhadji Koumama builds a shop in Niamey
• Cross-cultural success story in the village of Inabisquin
• What religion do the Tuaregs practice?

Koumama Inadan News July 2007

• Troubles in Niger
• Do Tuareg women make jewelry?
• Koumama Tuareg Jewelry selected to participate in the first annual Tiburon Art Festival

Koumama Inadan News June 2007

• Hadija’s Visit to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
• Where do the Tuaregs get the stones and ebony for the jewelry?

Koumama Inadan News May 2007

• Inadan Men Create the Jewelry
• Where do the Tuaregs get the silver to make the jewelry?

Koumama Inadan News April 2007

• Elhadji Koumama’s Children
• The Art of Being Tuareg Exhibition
• What do the markings on my jewelry mean?