The War with Jugurtha After the destruction of Carthage, the most important kingdom in Africa was Numidia. It contained a number of flourishing towns which were centers of a considerable commerce. Masinissa, the loyal Roman ally from the Punic Wars, left this kingdom to his son Micipsa. The latter had two sons and a nephew, Jugurtha. Jugurtha was a brilliant and ambitious young man, who had served under Scipio in the Spanish Numantine war, and returned... 

Discrimination of Amazigh Music in Studio 2M 2M, a Moroccan channel, remains a racist channel. Even if the decision makers always say that Tamazight will have its full rights in the media, the facts are proving the opposite. Abdellah BOUZANDAG, the singer of Tafsut Band was recently a victim of this discrimination by 2M channel. In a competition program called Studio 2M, the participation of Bouzandag was not accepted in the 3 stage of the competition... 

Tuareg The Tuareg belong to the large Berber (Imazighen) community, which stretches from the Canary Islands to Egypt and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Niger River. They are the only Berber speaking community, to have preserved and used the Tifinagh writing. Nomads of vast arid lands, the common denominator of the dispersed Tuareg are the language, Tamasheq. They identify themselves variously such as: Kel Tamasheq (people of Tamasheq), Imouhar,... 

Syphax When Syphax was born, Numidia (the north of modern Algeria) was a country on the edge of the urbanized world of the Mediterranean. Although many people were living in large villages that would eventually develop into cities, another part of the Numidian population was still roaming over the plains. Our word “nomad” is derived from “Numidia”. There were two rival tribal federations, both in the process of becoming full-blown... 

Thifswin Association Agraw.Com: Azul brother Mohamed Ben Yousef from ‘Thefeswin’ association of the Amazigh theatre. First, tell us about Thefeswin? Thfswin: Thanks brother Miloud for this question. Thefeswin used to be a group before becoming recently an association. We worked from 1998 until 2004 as a group, but we thought of creating an association under the name of Thefeswin so that we would work legally. Agraw.Com:... 

Africa The indigenous peoples of North Africa are the Imazighn, known as Berbers to the West and including the nomadic and oasis dwelling Tuareg people in the south.They claim their indigenous identity in the face of pressures for cultural, linguistic and political assimilation into an Arab and Arabic language identity by the States of North Africa. This ‘Arabism’ dates from the 1950s liberation movement and is a source... 

Mr. Abdeslam Khalafi Mr. Abdesslam Khalafi is a former professor at Al Akhawayn University, who is now a researcher in the Royal Institute for Moroccan Amazigh Culture (IRCAM). The first question for Mr. Khalafi was about whether Amazigh consider themselves as a separate ethnic group or as an integrated group in the Moroccan society. The answer was that this issue is very complex, if we go back to Amazigh history before Islam, we find that they were... 

M.C.A Amazigh Days in Tangiers As a perpetuation of the 26th memory of the Amazigh spring, the Amazigh cultural movement in Tanjiss organized cultural days which started the 24th and ended on the 26th April 2006 under the motto: “Tamazight’s equity is a bet for any real democratic movementâ€?. The first day was organized in the faculty of Law where an exposition of different books and publications took place.... 

Moussem Festival Moussem organizes two festivals yearly: the ‘Moussem Festival’ (May) and the ‘Moussem Festivalâ€? (November). Diversity and quality are the key features in our artistic policy plan. Within each genre, we search for intrinsic quality, within the art disciplines. The first Moussem Festival was launched in May 2001. Meanwhile we are up to the sixth edition of the festival. Moussem... 

Libya Imazighen are one of three main groups inhabiting modern Libya, and one of the most ancient. Their agricultural villages were centred around reliable water sources in the desert regions, and constructed from mud brick, stone and date palm timber, adhered with gypsum mortar, until a few decades ago. Now several small Berber communities are preserving their Medinas (old cities) for cultural heritage and tourism purposes. The most famous of these...