Gnawa

The Gnawa (/ɡ(ə)ˈnɑːwə/) (or Gnaoua, Ghanawa, Ghanawi, Gnawi'; Arabic: ڭناوة) are an ethnic group inhabiting Morocco, that had been brought as slaves from the West African Sahel.

The history of the Gnawa is closely related to the historic Moroccan royal "Black Guard", and the word "Gnawa", plural of "Gnawi", is derived from the Hausa language.^[1]

Gnawa music was inscribed in 2019 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.^[2]

^ الأنصاري, عمر; الساقي, دار (2006). "5" [Like moulay Rashid, moulay Abdu allah and moulay Ismael whose kingdom reached the estuary of the Niger River]. الرجال الزرق: الطوارق, الأسطورة والواقع (in Arabic). Lebanon: Dar al Saqi. p. 84. ISBN 978-614-425-038-9.
^ "UNESCO - Decision of the Intergovernmental Committee: 14.COM 10.B.26". ich.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-05-29.

[1] الأنصاري, عمر; الساقي, دار (2006). "5" [Like moulay Rashid, moulay Abdu allah and moulay Ismael whose kingdom reached the estuary of the Niger River]. الرجال الزرق: الطوارق, الأسطورة والواقع (in Arabic). Lebanon: Dar al Saqi. p. 84. ISBN 978-614-425-038-9.

[2] "UNESCO - Decision of the Intergovernmental Committee: 14.COM 10.B.26". ich.unesco.org. Retrieved 2020-05-29.

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