Dynamic Africa

Dynamic Africa strives to be a multi-media information sharing curated blog that aims to function as a diverse platform for all things African and/or African-related (i.e. Diaspora) - from the classic to the contemporary.

Formerly, "This is Africa/fyeahAfrica".

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From Lagos, Nigeria

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Posts tagged "morocco"

A boy in a Fez.

Morocco.

A. Piattoli

Photo from French photographer Luc Choquer’s Potraits de Français.

gramspiration:

Marrakesh, Morocco

(via allthingsmoroccan)

Pro-independence rallies held in Western Sahara

Hundreds of pro-independence Sahrawi activists have marched in Laayoune, the Western Sahara’s largest city, over the weekend in the region’s biggest protest in several decades, according to Moroccan media reports.

About 500 people marched peacefully late on Saturday afternoon, but violence broke out in the evening after the protest, wounding 21 policemen, several newspapers reported on Monday.

The clashes also wounded an unknown number of activists, Hamoud Iguilid, the local representative of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights, told the AFP news agency.

Mohamed Salem Charkaoui from Morocco’s official National Human Rights Council, cited by the news website Lakome, said 2,000 people took part in the Laayoune protest.

Protests took place in other Western Saharan towns on Sunday, including in Smara, where 17 members of the security forces were wounded trying to disperse protesters who had set up barricades in the streets, the official MAP news agency reported.

It gave no information on injuries sustained by the protesters, who it said tried “to occupy the street and block traffic, creating a chaotic situation”.

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nostalgerie:

Imilchil Wedding Festival by Best Of Morocco Tours on Flickr.

MOROCCO. Oujda. Berber women. 1972.
© Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos

MOROCCO. Oujda. Berber women. 1972.

© Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos

(via tamza-d-amzew)

A behind the scenes look at Moroccan photographer Leila Alaoui at work whilst shooting the 2012 ‘You & Gueliz’ series that pays homage to the downtown Marrakech district that the project is named after, by photographing 30 different individuals from all walks of life that live and/or work in Gueliz.

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Portraits of Moroccan People, photographed by Leila Alaoui

Leila Alaoui is a French-Moroccan multi-media artist whose work focuses on “cultural identities and migration”, through short films, photography, and video installations.

In her photographic portrait series ‘The Moroccans’, Alaoui travelled the country with a mobile photo studio with the aim of capturing and archiving the “ethnic and and cultural diversity of Morocco” and the “aesthetics of disappearing social realities”. The photos above are taken from this series.

Alaoui’s work also branches out into activism with one of her most recent multimedia projects focusing on creating awareness on the lives of sub-Saharan migrants in Morocco.

See more of her work on her website.

(via thisisnotafrica)