Fair Trade Culture

August 1st, 2007 by Dominic

‘Coin Des Berberes’ is a small Berber jewelry making cooperative located In the Tiznit Morocco, on the fringe of the Sahara desert. There are few tourists that actually make it to Tiznit due to the fact that it’s rather difficult to get to. The cooperative survives by sending most of it’s work to be sold in the larger more heavily tourist visited cities of Fez and Marrakesh. 15 extended families show their wares in this shop. Some work in the shop and others out of their homes.

Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are discontinuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to Niger river. They speak various Berber languages, which together form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Between fourteen and twenty-five million Berber-speakers live within this region, most heavily in Morocco and becoming generally scarcer eastward through the rest of the Maghreb and beyond.

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