@theotherhistoryofmorocco: Long before foreign #conquest , North Africa was shaped by powerful indigenous societies where #women held supreme power. While pre-Islamic Arabia struggled with patriarchal practices like the burial of female infants, #Amazigh embraced female leadership. Queens like Dihya did not merely rule, they commanded armies and united tribes against invasion in the 7th century. When arab Umayyad forces defeated Dihya and sent her severed head to Damascus, it marked a violent shift in North African history. For many, this event shattered a legacy of native female sovereignty, proving that external rule brought subjugation, not #liberation , to North Africa’s #indigenous women.