Gnawa

The Gnawa () (or Gnaoua, Ghanawa, Ghanawi, Gnawi'; Arabic: ڭناوة, romanized: Gnāwa) are an ethnic minority inhabiting southern Morocco, who had been brought to Morocco as slaves from West Africa’s Sahel. The name Gnawa originated in the indigenous languages of North Africa and the Sahara Desert. The phonology of this term according to the grammatical principles of Berber is agnaw (singular) and ignawen (plural), which means "black person." Gnawa music was inscribed in 2019 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.