Throughout its 2,500-year history, irrespective of whether it was a Carthaginian colony, a Roman provincial capital, a Portuguese colony, an English naval outpost, or a Moroccan fishing port, ...Tangiers has always considered itself a transit nexus. Yet some arrive, never to leave.
You'll Never Leave Naffis-Sahely, André
World literature today,
01/2019, Letnik:
93, Številka:
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Recenzirano
Only a year following independence, Mohammed V's son and future heir, Crown Prince Hassan, led a battalion of French mercenaries into the Rif-the mountainous Berber cultural region curling up toward ...Spain in the northern part of Morocco-to crush a brewing rebellion there. ...Abbas had lived through the mass exodus of the 1960s and early 1970s, when the Rif's villages had emptied out as countless young Berbers went to work in Europe's factories and mines, as well as the bread riots of the 1980s. ...despite his pristine international image as a business-friendly reformer, Mohamed VI has also overseen a Putinization of Morocco, where power remains absolute and business deals are concluded solely with the approval of the king's cabal of crony capitalists. In brief regardless of' where those branches are headed, it is anywhere but Africa. ...the men, women, and children who share Gawas situation find themselves undesirable aliens in a country that also happens to refute its African heritage.
Political Voices from the Maghreb Boudjedra, Rashid; Lounes, Matoub; Bouanani, Ahmed ...
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11/2015, Letnik:
89, Številka:
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