Bab Tamazgha brings to life the Amazigh tales and legends of every region of Morocco, not as a folkloric inventory, but as stories you want to follow to the very end. Each album is rooted in an Amazigh region (the Rif, the Middle Atlas, the Souss) and draws readers into a story carried by the figures of the Amazigh imagination.
Every reader discovers that their own region has its legends, its figures and its imagination, as rich as any tradition from elsewhere, and gains a sense of cultural and regional pride.
These books are also a bridge of transmission between the elders who carried these tales by word of mouth, the grandparents of today’s parents, and the generations to come. A grandmother recognises the story she once heard by the fire, a child discovers it for the first time, and the book gives them a reason to sit down together and share it before this oral memory fades.
There is no single format. Some albums gather the tales of our ancestors as they were handed down, illustrated and edited for young readers. Others, in large format, explore the figures and deities of Amazigh mythology. Others are new stories inspired by Amazigh characters and tales, without being faithful transcriptions.
Holding a book that tells what one’s memory has always carried strengthens the feeling of belonging to a land, and gives readers the desire to create in turn, knowing where they come from.