Gnawa

The Gnawa (/ɡ(ə)ˈnɑːwə/) (or Gnaoua, Ghanawa, Ghanawi, Gnawi'; Arabic: ڭناوة) are an ethnic group inhabiting Morocco, that had been brought as slaves from West African Sahel, especially northern Nigeria.

This article is about the Gnawa people. For the music, see Gnawa music.

The name Gnawa probably originated in the indigenous language 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.

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