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The “Black Peril” According to One Moroccan Weekly

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Morocco, Senegal, Digital Activism, Ethnicity & Race, International Relations, Migration & Immigration, Religion
The cover of Moroccan Weekly lists the peril of black immigration in Morocco - Public Domain [1]

The cover of Moroccan Weekly “Maroc Hebdo” lists the peril of black immigration in Morocco – posted on twitter by @atourabi [2] -Public Domain


Activist Rokhaya Diallo wonders [3] [fr] what drove magazines to recently choose racially polarizing covers. Moroccan Weekly Maroc Hebdo writes  on its cover [4] [fr] that black population brings instability, illegal immigration, drug trafficking and prostitution to Morocco. French magazine Le Point also came under scrutiny for several covers polarizing the Muslim community [5][fr].