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The Imazighen (Berbers): A Lesson on Identity

Africa's Untold Stories

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The History of the Arabidians

Some of the Amazee were assimilated. They started adopting our culture, speaking Arabic and forgetting their own language over time. So in that sense, for some Amazee, the identity was slipping away from them. And they didn't know about it and they were not bothered about it. Some of them still stuck to it though. If you take it in North African right now, you ask them, are you Arab or Amazee? They could tell you you don't want it. But then they still lead clean to the Arab.

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