North Africa: North Africa’s Indigenous Peoples – the Imazighen

[Afropop] The Imazighen, also known as Amazighen, are the indigenous peoples of North Africa. A majority of the world may know them as the "Moors" or "Berber," a term coined by the Romans and popularized by the Arab conquerors of the region meaning "barbarian"; the natives have rejected this discriminatory term and prefer to call themselves Amazigh/Imazigh, meaning "free men" in the Tamazight language. Their territories stretched as far west as the Canary Islands and Mauritania and as far east as the Siwa Oasis in