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The Imazighen (Berbers): A Lesson on Identity

Africa's Untold Stories

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Today's episode is the Amazig in a lesson in identity. The term Berber comes from the Greek term Berberoi, which was one of the Greek people who couldn't speak Greek because all they were here was Barberoi. So, Barbara means barbarian and Arabs picked that up to refer to the same group of people and they called them our Barberoi. And the other white people picked that up from the Arabs and they call them the Barbary. Which eventually became Berberoi. But what does Amazigh mean? Do you know it? I'll give you a shot. It's Azul. That's hello in quite a number of mazee languages.

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