Morocco’s postcolonial avant-garde in the service of reparations and recognition

In Morocco, the post-colonial power has implemented cultural policies aiming for a return to the precolonial times with a conception of tradition that was produced by the colonial gaze, thus continuing the colonial epistemology and policies.
Tahin Aymen writes:

In the same manner, the imposition of a strictly arab, islamic and conservative Moroccan identity led to the political and institutional repression and suppression of any other possibility of self identification.

In this sense, post-independence failed to meet the needs for decolonization, worse, it has integrated the colonial tools of violence as the post-independence main power dispositifs.
However, the 1960’s saw the emergence of a Moroccan artistic and intellectual avant-garde confronting these issues. The latter proposed a marxist and decolonial critique of the Moroccan institutions, reflections on memory, heritage and identity or new formulations of cultural traditions.