Amazigh music in the spotlight

The city of Agadir is preparing to host, from 22 to 25 July, the twelfth edition of the "Timitar Festival: Signs and Cultures" under the theme "Amazigh artists welcome world music"."Once again this year, African, Cuban, oriental, jazzy, hip-hop, Andalusian, and tarrab rhythms will make the city of Agadir vibrate and make it the symbol, for the duration of the festival, of values of tolerance and respect for differences," indicates a statement from the organisers. An ancestral land of Amazigh culture, the capital of Souss will welcome artists from all horizons to celebrate on a Moroccan stage the joy of living in a world where living together is experiencing its hardest moments, the statement explains, specifying that "Timitar is thus an opportunity to shed light on values dear to the Kingdom, starting with overcoming differences." It is, the same source continues, a gamble made possible…