Step 1 · Topic
The Aït Ouahlim (Aït Wahlim)
One of the five “fifths” of the Aït Atta: the tribes of the Aït Zemro and the Aït Hasso, from the Todgha to the Draa.
Guided tours · 6 steps
The Aït Ouahlim
One khoms of the Aït Atta: organisation, territories, figures and memory.
Hasso ou Ba Selem (Assou Oubasslam), portrait published by J. Robichez (1946) — J. Robichez, Maroc central (Arthaud, 1946) ; fichier fourni par le titulaire du projet, Publication autorisée par le titulaire du projet (déclaration du 8 novembre 2026)
Step 2 · Topic
The “five fifths”
At the top of the segmentation, five groups without their own chief, whose essential function was to provide, in turn, the chief of all.
Step 3 · Topic
The Saghro and Aït Atta country
An arid massif, symbolic and political heart, at the centre of a territory scattered between mountain, oases and pre-Saharan steppes.
Step 4 · Topic
Igharm Amazdar, the capital
“London, Paris, Washington and Igharm Amazdar”: a village of a hundred houses that was the political, judicial and sacred centre of the Aït Atta.
Step 5 · Person
Assou Oubasslam
Chief of the Ilemchan (Aït Atta), principal leader of the resistance in the Saghro in 1933.
Step 6 · Person
Adjou Moh
A woman of the Saghro whom local memory makes a figure of the Bougafer resistance (1933).
