Zagora Hosts 16th Edition of International Festival of Nomads

International Festival Nomads, 2019

The 16th Edition of the International Festival of Nomads will take place in Zagora from April 4th – 6th, 2019.  The three day festival will be held in the Sahara desertregion, M’hamid El Ghizlane within the Drâa Tafilalet region. The program has been designed to include  varied activities such as conferences, music concerts, artistic activities, and traditional Moroccan sports. The festival also aims to share the diversity of Nomadic culture, and the dispora of ethnicities from the African continent. Muscians from Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Congo and Algeria have been invited to participate. Some of the performers at this year’s festival are Cheick Tidiane Seck, Hasna El Bécharia, Takrist Nakal and Abdallah Oumbadougou, Mariaa Siga, Nabil Othmani, Nouamane Lahlou and Maehdi Nassouli.