Daghaghra

The Daghaghra, also spelled Deghaghra or Deghagha, are an tribe belonging to the Ouled Slim fraction of the Ouderna tribe in the region of Tataouine, southern Tunisia.

The Daghaghra originate from the Ouled Slim fraction of the Ouderna tribe. They are a Bedouin tribe from the Bani Sulaym confederation, like many historian said, like Mohamed Bouzerara, a Tunisian historian from Tataouine. A legend tells that during the flight of the Ouled Yacoub, a woman from this tribe abandoned her child. The child was found by a man from the Ouled-Debbab, who entrusted him to his wife, who raised him as her own. When he became an adult, he worked as a laborer in a Berber village to earn a living and took a wife from the neighboring Aouadid tribe. This woman, while pregnant, asked her father for a piece of ox hide. She cut it into strips and demanded the land covered by these strips. Her father exclaimed, "Daghaghretni, you have deceived me!"; this is said to be the origin of the tribe's name.

Descended from the Ouled-Selim, along with the other clans that contributed to this fraction (Ouled-Debbab, Ouled-Chehida and Adjerda), they lived around the ksar of Guettoufa and had arable land, both located in the territory of the Ouled-Abd-el-Hamid, another fraction of the Ouderna. André Louis described them as lords due to their nomadic status, while sedentary people were described as serfs of the Bedouins. As members of the Ouderna confederation, the Daghaghra and other allied tribes were described at the beginning of the 20th century as great nomadic raiders much feared by their neighbors, before being sedentarized and becoming herders and farmers described as peaceful. The ksour among the Daghaghra are not living spaces like those of other tribes in the region, due to their nomadic and semi-nomadic lifestyle depending on the period. Instead, they serve only as warehouses, bearing the name of the tribe (explaining the origin of the Ksar Dghaghra), where food resources or other wealth are stored .

The Sedra and Tazardanet are little Berber tribes (known as a cheikhdoms) who were allies of Bedouin arab tribes who owned the lands, the Sedra were allies of the Daghaghra and Tazardanet of Ouled Chahida. The sedentary berbers cultivated and inhabited the land in exchange of the bedouin tribes who had the quality of warriors in the region .