Berberism

Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language: ; Neo-Tifinagh: ; Berber Latin alphabet: ; ) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tuareg people of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria, northeastern Mali, northern Niger, and northern Burkina Faso for writing the Tuareg languages. Neo-Tifinagh is an alphabet developed by the Berber Academy by adopting Tuareg Tifinagh for use for Kabyle; it has been since modified for use across North Africa.

Flag of tribes of Berber origin

thumb|The Berber flag adopted by the [[World Amazigh Congress in 1998]] thumb|Demonstration of Kabyle people|Kabyles in Paris, April 2016 Berberism is a Berber ethnonationalist movement that started in Kabylia in Algeria during the French colonial era with the Kabyle myth, largely driven by colonial capitalism and France's divide and conquer policy. The Berberist movement originally manifested itself as anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia, and Francophilia, that was sanctioned and sponsored by French colonial authorities. The movement later spread to other Berber communities in the Maghreb region

abjad writing system

Kabyle cultural association in France

rebellion by various Tuareg groups in Niger and Mali

international organization of the Amazigh people

Tamazgha is a neologism in the Berber languages denoting the lands traditionally inhabited by the Berber peoples within the Maghreb. The term was coined in the 1970s by the Berber Academy and, since the late 1990s, has gained particular significance among speakers of Berber languages. Tamazgha is both the discursive and geographic embodiment of an Amazigh imaginary of a language and culture that were once unified and had their own territory, it has never been a single political entity, and Berbers across the Maghreb did not see themselves as a single cultural or linguistic unit, nor was there

insurgency amongst elements of the Tuareg people in Mali and Niger

insurgency by populations of what is now northern Mali

attacks

ethnic Tuareg tribal militias operating in South-West Libya during the Second Libyan Civil War