
How Morocco’s diaspora is remaking the nation
When Ayyoub Bouaddi chose Morocco over France, he wasn’t just making a football decision, he was enacting a theory of citizenship that has been in the making since 1880.
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Brahim El Guabli is a Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco. He is the author of Desert Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and Its Radical Consequences.

When Ayyoub Bouaddi chose Morocco over France, he wasn’t just making a football decision, he was enacting a theory of citizenship that has been in the making since 1880.

In Morocco, football has become a site for the slow re-Africanization of the country’s national identity.

It is burgeoning field that intersects with Arabic, Francophone, Middle Eastern and African studies. But why is Amazigh Studies absent in Anglophone academia?