Agency:.Co-produced by the NFB and the World Food Program of the United Nations (Food and Agriculture Organization).

Director, Guy L. Coté ; producer, Peter Hollander, Peter McCaw, J.-P. Olivier Fougères ; commentary, Marthe Blackburn ; photography, Roger Rochat ; sound, Yves Gendron ; sound editing, Gilles Quintal, Alain Sauvé ; re-recording, Hans Peter Strobl, Adrian Croll.

Narrator, Ousseynou Diop.

Recorded 1979.

Azzel is the name of one of the first schools for nomads opened by the Niger Department of National Education. The film describes the traditional nomadic lifestyle of the Tuareg and the changes brought about in the lives of the children attending the government-run boarding schools.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).