Berbers from across North Africa are rallying together on social media and other platforms in a bid to protect their history, culture and language from slowly fading away. As the indigenous people of North Africa, they represent the descendant of the overwhelming majority of Moroccans. Berber nationalists claim that many of their people became Arabised during the early twentieth century due to Arab nationalism.
This is a on-going project and it´s capturing the essence of Berber culture across Morocco. The objective is to invest a significant amount of time to fully understand their way of life and encapsulate the struggles they endure.
This first chapter focus on the daily life of a group of three nomad Berber families living on the periphery of a 15km military zone in the Sahara's Black Desert. Decades of honing their skills to perfection allows them to complete these daily painstaking practices with meticulous efficiency. However, tensions escalating between Algeria and Morocco along with tourism gaining greater prominence in the Sahara, threaten this traditional way of life.
In this section of the project I am following these three families, chronicling their lives and touching upon the abuse of the nomadic Berbers for tourism and industry. In the future I will also reveal the transition from nomad to town life as well as accompanying one of the families on their journey to set up a new settlement.
