ⵣ✍️ Profound words that delve into the open wound that cannot be seen by the eye, but is felt in the soul. Cultural invasion is unlike any other type of invasion, for it does not come with tanks or planes. Rather, it enters into songs, stories, language, names, and daily customs, until, through frequent repetition, it becomes “normal” or even “authentic” in the eyes of today’s children.
And here lies the disaster: when the foreign becomes the familiar, and the authentic is accused of backwardness or erased from memory. And when a young person fervently defends a foreign culture instilled in him from the cradle, believing it to be his, while denying what he truly is.
Here we are not talking about the loss of identity, but rather its theft and forgery.
Identity is not just clothing or language; it is an inner sense of belonging. Cultural invasion is not satisfied with taking over land; it plants in you a sense that you are a stranger in your own land, that you are an intruder on your history, that you do not deserve to be proud of who you were.
The solution?
Not just to teach our children their history, but to instill in them a spirit of sacred doubt, to question everything:
“Where did this idea come from? Who coined this concept? Is this really part of my identity? Or is it the result of long-term implantation?”
Rebuilding cultural awareness is more difficult than building walls.
But it is the real battle.
The battle of identity against stereotyping, of awareness against hypnosis, of authenticity against Westernization.
Whoever is unaware of their identity becomes a soldier in an army that does not know their enemy.
And this is the height of danger.
ⴰⵣⵡⴰⴷ ⵉⵙⵉ ⵜⵓⵍⵉⵍⵜ ⵏ ⵜⴰⵏⵏⴰⴱⵉⵜ – Azawad
Azawad Freedom Voice 07-04-25
EN_GB 
FR 
AR