Ali Sadqi Azaykou (1949–2004) was born in the High Atlas region of Taroudant. A historian, poet, litterateur, and cultural critic, Azaykou was a phenomenal intellectual who was attuned to the major questions of identity and historiography facing his generation. Read More He was a practitioner of history from below avant l’heure, and his work on toponymy and local history paved the path for the indigenization of Moroccan history. Azaykou published numerous articles in French and Arabic and the books Samples of Geographic and Human Toponyms and Moroccan History and its Possible Interpretations in Arabic. His poetry collections in Tamazight include Timitār (Signs) and Izmuln (Wounds). In 1981, he was arrested and tried because of his article “For a Real Conceptualization of Our National Culture,” and became the first political prisoner in the history of the Moroccan Amazigh Cultural Movement.