Berberism

The Berber flag adopted by the Amazigh World Congress (CMA, Agraw Amadlan Amazigh) in 1998
Demonstration of Kabyles in Paris, April 2016

Berberism is a Berber political-cultural movement of ethnic nationalism, started mainly in Kabylia (Algeria) and in Morocco later spreading to the rest of the Berber communities in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The Berberist movement in Algeria and Morocco is in opposition to cultural Arabization, the pan-Arabist political ideology and Islamism.[1][2]

A Berber group, the Tuaregs, have been in rebellion against Mali since 2012, and established a temporarily de facto independent state called Azawad, which identified itself as Berber.

  1. ^ Willis, Michael (1997). The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History. NYU Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-8147-9329-9.
  2. ^ Almasude, Eden (2014). "Amazighité and secularism: Rethinking religious-secular divisions in the Amazigh political imagination". Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. University of Minnesota.

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