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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Behind mohammed vi s push for a more amazigh morocco - You Need To See This

Amazigh singer Ikram Essaghir wearing traditional Amazigh clothes [Ahmed Adnan Alsharateha/Al Jazeera]

When Mohammed Gazouli was a child, he remembers being made fun of for speaking Tamazight, the Amazigh language, in school.

“I felt alienated. Our identity was persecuted,” Gazouli told Al Jazeera. “Expressions of folklore were just for certain occasions.”

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