#Imazighen

[soxiyy]

From Levantine_gay on insta

[ohhnorr]

Atay with family 🩵

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[felucians]

Imposter Syndrome as a native person is very real, especially if you're reconnecting or white-presenting.

Whenever pretendians with large platforms built on their "heritage" are outed as liars, it can affect actual natives mental health - which is why pretendians are such a huge issue.

To all natives with Imposter Syndrome, it's hard but you know your heritage and who you are - don't let liars take that away from you, especially when they want to be you.

[dopeanddiamantes]

Free Palestine

Any brand, any artist, any celebrity, and any pathetic excuse for a human that doesn’t support Palestine, no longer has my support or interest.

[koenji]

Tuareg parent and child, date unknown.

The Tuareg are an indigenous Amazigh ethnic group who inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, as far as northern Nigeria. Tuareg are traditionally semi-nomadic pastoralists and speak languages of the same name, also known as Tamasheq, which belong to the Tamazight branch of the Afroasiatic language family.

[melyyssa]

[joyxel]

okay lets goooooo lets make her walk EVERYWHERE

but like srsly, it's giving retro gba princess huh...

[dinamichedelnulla]

ⵣ Amazigh women and their tattoos ⵣ

[sissa-arrows]

Hey as a mixed North African, I was wondering if you had any tips/advice for reconnecting with my culture? I’m Very sorry if this ask is rude or insensitive at all

This is not rude at all and I’m happy you’re trying to reconnect with your culture. That being said unfortunately I’m going to give you a very generic answer as I don’t know which languages you speak, the country where you live and which North African country you come from exactly.

Depending on where you live you can get in North African groups, if IRL groups are not an option, online groups are good too. I would suggest groups that are specifically related to the country you’re from as we all have different traditions and a different culture.

Connecting with your side of the family who is North African might not be an option but if it is, ask questions, the aunties, uncles and grandparents love talking about our culture.

History books. Are also interesting.

Legend and children’s tale are also good I have a couple books I can suggest if you speak French. My favorite stories were the ones with Mama Ghoula basically she is a ghoul and she is the equivalent of the big bad wolf. That being said some of our monsters are actually not legendary monsters at all but real colonizers who became monsters in children stories because of colonial trauma (Bouchou is actually Bugeaud) they can also be people who resisted colonialism (according to a Moroccan friend Aisha Kandisha was woman who resisted colonialism after they killed her husband by luring in Portuguese soldiers with her beauty and she would then kill them… later in the legend she became a woman who lure in men in general or just unfaithful men to kill then)

Food is also a good way to reconnect there’s tons of easy recipes online like baghrir, sfeng, shlada mechouia, fricassés…

Be super careful online cause there’s this new wave of supposedly Imazighen folks (I say supposedly cause while some are some are also just white people who wanna pretend they are exotic) who are trying to reconnect by believing every single thing online and by spreading misinformations in videos where they pretend the be knowledgeable on the subject. One of them legit said “Morocco” and “Moroccan” were slurs and good thing they didn’t try that shit with Algeria because our great grandparents didn’t die for people to be stupid and to refuse to call it Algeria and to call us Algerians so I would have insulted her so fucking much.

[ataydialtitrit]

sketch, amazigh woman. 26th of june 2023.

[soxiyy]

[ohhnorr]

Preparations at dawn with the family 🌱

I NEVER POSTED MY LARGE PIECE OF THE MONTH

It was meant to be posted on l’eid but it took longer, and it’s honestly so funny since the piece is inspired by l’eid. In which the kitchen is just a chaos to walk through its like a warzone and i tried to replicate that by the density in which the family members lie. My favourite dishes the outside air always being thick yet close to sunset but never quite touching the horizon.

[felucians]

As an Egyptian, I don't understand why people are shocked that I support Palestine. They are my homeland's neighbor, and on top of that, Israel has bombed our border as civilians fled and threatened Egypt if they try to send aid to Gaza.

Israel has given Egypt and Egyptians every reason to support Palestine.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

[dopeanddiamantes]

[koenji]

Amazigh Jews of Southern Morocco during Torah study, Taznakht, Morocco, 1954. Photographed by Elias Harrus.

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

Tifinagh alphabet, from Aghali-Zakara (1993 and 2002): Hoggar (Algeria); Aïr (Niger); Ghat (Libya); Azawagh (Niger-Mali); and Adghagh (Mali)

"The "written landscape" of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains" by Savino Di Lernia and Stefano Biagetti