Imetlaa In 1996 the musicians behind the band Imetlaâ found their way to making professional music. As a joke they decided to participate at a talent hunt (“Plankenkoorts”) stage-fright, which they were asked for. All members of the band had made already music earlier on, but none of them professionally. For this performance the band needed a name. Numerous brilliant names passed, all of them so brilliant that they turned out already... 

Matoub Lounes On June 25, 1998, approximately 12:30 PM local time, a car driving along a mountainous road in eastern Algeria was stopped and fired upon by masked gunmen at a roadblock. The driver died; his three female passengers were wounded. Such attacks have become a common occurrence in today’s Algeria, six years into a bitter civil war that has claimed more than 75,000 (mainly civilian) lives. The incident occurred within two... 

5 000 years ago, Imazighen The name of the Libyans is registred in the oldest documents of – Egyptian historie , towards 3.000 before J.C, perhaps even before this date and the Libyans, today Imazighen, have an old history of more than five thousand years Téhénou, Lybian, Imazighen The country of the Libyans was called Tehenou among Egyptians. This designation is a little arbitrary, we only know about the T-h-n-w consonants; because...