Guided tours · 5 steps
Timnaḍin, poetry of the conquest, today's music: what the Aït Atta and their neighbours sing.
Step 1 · Dossier
Very short sung pieces, improvised at celebrations and gatherings, voicing love, absence, criticism and memory. Every text shown here comes from a published source, quoted briefly, with its context and date.
Step 2 · Dossier
What poetry has kept of the fighting of the conquest, and what we cannot yet attest. No text is attributed to 1933 without proof.
Step 3 · Topic
Amazigh poems from the Central Atlas, collected after the conquest, name the aeroplane, the cannon and the disaster.
Step 4 · Topic
Since the early 1990s, bands from the south-east have sung in Tamazight about language, land, exile, rights and the memory of the Saghro. The sources say where these musicians come from: none links them to the Aït Atta.
Step 5 · Person
Singer, guitarist and flautist, founder and leader of Saghru Band (2006-2011).