soc.culture.berber
Berber (Amazigh) peoples, language and identity.
A forum for Amazigh identity across Morocco, Algeria, Kabylia, the Tuareg regions and the diaspora — decades before Tamazight gained official status anywhere. Tifinagh script revival and language-teaching threads were staples.
The group’s debates with (and within) Arab-nationalist perspectives make it a primary source on North African identity politics of the era.
Reading soc.culture.berber today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — soc.culture.berber (coverage varies by group and era).
- Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.