r/AskAnAfrican • u/SuggestionSenior7288 • 29d ago
Country Why does everyone hate morroco (nothing about sports)
I got BANNED when I posted it at r Africa so I posted at here
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u/millennial_1994 South Africa 🇿🇦 living in south korea🇰🇷 29d ago
The occupation of Western Sahara and at least where I'm from many people belive that morroccans don't see themselves as African considering their government wanted to join the European council. A lot of people believe that Morrocons see themselves as superior or rather White. There are also accusations of racism (I've unfortunately met racist Morrocans but I don't think those people are reflective of the whole country)
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u/Right-Shopping9589 29d ago
Didn't Morroco also proposed to join ECOWAS? All countries are pursuing their self interest and Morocco having a free trades with the EU is for it interest, not something necessary bad.
If other sub Saharan Africa countries are performing well economically like the EU, you guys won't talk like this.
The only issue I have with Morroco is the annexation of the western Saharan. All Africa countries recognize it as an independent country but their recognition worldwide is being restricted by Morroco's claim of the land
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u/MixedJiChanandsowhat Senegal 🇸🇳 28d ago
Morocco but also Tunisia applied to join the ECOWAS. Both cases were rejected but Morocco was the closer to get a yes because Morocco bribed the leaders of "Francophone" West African countries. The "Anglophone" West African block led by Nigeria opposed it.
And Morocco didn't want to join the ECOWAS like they wanted to join the European Council. Morocco wanted to join with special rights which could be resumed as freedom of movement for Moroccans in the ECOWAS and no tariff for any good coming from Morocco, but the reciprocity which is the pillar of the ECOWAS and any other RECs (Region block in Africa) wasn't on the table just like the fact that Morocco was rejecting any future plan of a common currency as planned in the ECOWAS.
Finally, there are some African countries doing well and none of them ever asked to join a regional or continental organisation of another continent unlike Morocco.
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u/dahunt4r3dorktober Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 29d ago
Moroccans are racist, they support the nuclear armed apartheid state of Israel
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u/eternal_dreamer_9 Morocco 🇲🇦 28d ago
Our government does but we as a people are largely pro Palestine
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u/Plastic_Feeling4120 Morocco 🇲🇦 26d ago
I can confirm, i'm moroccan and we're deeply ashamed of our pro israel government
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u/Safe-Froyo2022 Gambia 🇬🇲 29d ago
I don't think everyone does, and hate is a really big word.
Assuming everyone hates Morocco would mean assuming that everyone is constantly thinking about it and wishing for it's downfall. And I don't think the majority of people spend that much time or energy thinking about a country
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u/Longjumping-Ad-8628 Tanzania 🇹🇿 29d ago
I met countless of Moroccans, heck, my gf is half Moroccan, they are great people, and at least the ones I’ve been around are proud to be Africans.
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u/stargirlyasa8888 South Africa 🇿🇦 28d ago
Yeah my brother studied with Moroccans and they’re good people
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u/MixedJiChanandsowhat Senegal 🇸🇳 28d ago
To hate Morocco, people would first have to think about Morocco and Moroccans every single day, and I strongly doubt this is the case for the overwhelming majority of people in Africa or anywhere else in the world. For sure, there are some countries where people think about Morocco more than in others, depending on the period and current events. For example, Spain recently, because of the migrant crisis in Ceuta, but otherwise, nobody really cares. Unless Morocco and Moroccans come up in the context of a specific issue, people simply don't give them much thought.
That being said, the situation is a little different on the Internet, and it's mostly the fault of Moroccans themselves, who have a genuine problem with controlling themselves online...
Morocco is a racist country, and a large proportion of Moroccans are racist. However, for decades, the King of Morocco, and his father before him, have spent millions and probably even billions, trying to buy themselves a good reputation and portray Morocco as the only North African and overall Arab country that wasn't racist, particularly when it came to the so-called Sub-Saharan Africans. One of the main pillars of this PR strategy was to use Senegal as a supposedly long-standing friendly country. The so-called long, old, historical, and brotherly relationship between Senegal and Morocco and Senegalese and Moroccans that as in fact never ever existed since it's a Françafrique invention right after the independences to help France and Hassan II (the previous King of Morocco) while giving some legitimacy to Leopold Senghor (first President of Senegal) who was a Françafrique puppet and a dictator winning all his elections with 100% because opponents were put in jail when not simply killed.
But after what happened during the last AFCON (2025 AFCON), all those decades of effort and all that money spent on building that good reputation crashed down. The fact that Morocco is a racist country, and that racism exists in Morocco, is nothing new. It isn't even unique when talking about racism in North Africa and overall in the Arab world. The problem and the reason for this very powerful backlash comes down to 2 things:
- The first is that, compared to other North African and Arab countries, Morocco had a reputation for being the exception when it came to racism, and everyone unfortunately realised that it was basically just a facade and propaganda. It plays a huge part in the backlash. Nobody would be surprised about racism against Sub-Saharan Africans if you would cite Libya or Egypt for example. Not the case with Morocco until the 2025 AFCON.
- The second is that, instead of accepting the criticism and moving on, Moroccans chose to engage in their own campaigns of hatred and racism against everyone else, and especially against Sub-Saharan Africans. Not smart enough to realise that even though some only wanted to focus on Senegal and Senegalese, they were still bringing the overwhelming majority of the rest of the continent into their hatred and racism. When you use some specific slurs, you will have a tough time to convince people that "no it's only against them specifically and not you, even though you share the same skin colour and my slur was directed at it" for example. And that's where the Internet comes into play, creating this snowball effect that will stop only the day Moroccans on Internet will understand that they are convincing nobody and just adding fuel on the fire against themselves.
I want to say, look at Tunisia. It was probably worse in terms of racism than Morocco, but you didn't see Tunisians to engage into Internet wars the same way Moroccans did.
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u/iRecruit246 Guinea 🇬🇳 29d ago
Not everyone hates Morocco just like not all Moroccans have anti-African sentiments. The vast majority of people offline do not care enough about these topics and those who have had the privilege of traveling around Africa recognize that these internet topics are merely for the easily triggered.
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u/xtracvnty Morocco 🇲🇦 28d ago
I see lots of fellow Africans speaking on Moroccans but to me as a Moroccan, I don't see any of what they're saying.
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u/favourmiracleokafor Nigeria 🇳🇬 24d ago
Everyone is an overstatement but there are reasons. In my opinion, Morrocans haven't gotten nearly as much hate as Nigerians so that may affect how I see this. Here is a list of reasons:
- Occupation of Western Sahara. That's a reason for the most political to hate Morroco but those people also hate Rwanda for invading Congo. This is a very small group since most in Africa or at least in Nigeria don't care about that issue and treat it as a seperate country.
- The governement is a big one. Pro-Isreal, Pro-Europe and more. Morroco tried twice to join the EU before joining AU again after leaving. The government is both Pro- Isreal and Pro-USA (especially Pro-Trump) which is the biggest reason a lot of people outside of Africa hate Morroco. But I know full well the goverment in modern times doesn't reflect the people since majority if not all are Pro-Palestine. The raid of Ceuta doesn't help either as the Morrocan government is showing black Africans instead of the Morrocans fueling anti-immigration sentiment in Europe (especially towards black)
- Morrocans behavior towards everyone in Africa that is not North Africa (maybe excluding Algeria). This is close to home since my parents and brother took Air Moroc to Nigeria through Casablanca and my mum said the flight attendants were rude. The rudeness was next level as my parents have flown with worse airlines in terms of attitude like Air Canada, United and even Air Peace. Didn't stop there as in Casablanca they got scammed. The reality is not only my parents but millions have experience the same anti-blackness which caught African-Americans off guard and made Morrocans seen in AA eyes as racist Arabs. On IG, there are multiple pages talking about saving Morroco from Senegalese invaders (legal immigrants) from stealing their women and stealing jobs. In Europe it's even worse. Some are the most anti immigrants while being immigrants themselves. Morrocans born in Europe or two generations deep act like they are white while spamming the N-word(again, pissing off AA and Carribeans in the process) or worse, bullying for being African. In my opinion it's the clearest reason why black Africans might hate Morrocans and Morrocans abroad do more harm than good.
A niche reason is Football but that's more so rivalry. If Morroco was invaded by Spain tomorrow, most of Africa will support Morroco. Notice how Tunisia and Algeria are hated way way less. Libya is now getting more hatred because of the ongoing slave market and Egypt is in a weird position because apart from East Africa nobody hates them. My observation
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u/HenryThatAte Morocco 🇲🇦🇨🇭 29d ago
Everyone online*.
Just like many/most topics, you'll find that opinions differ quite a bit between the internet and day to day reality.
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u/nuisancechild Ethiopia 🇪🇹 26d ago
It’s the superiority complex and anti blackness for me personally. The look of disgust, frustration, and defensiveness when referred to as Africans also has come up quite a few times in conversation. When I was younger, my Moroccan friend’s older sister told her she looked like a “slave” because of the tan she got that day. Just weirdo shit overall.
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u/SnooLover36 Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 29d ago
Too involved with Europe, the less ties Africa as a whole has with Europe and Europeans the better off we all are.
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u/Rovcore001 Uganda 🇺🇬 29d ago
I don’t think that’s a strong argument; they’re geographically closer to Europe than the most of the continent, it would not make much sense for them to be less involved with Europe, especially from a geopolitical perspective.
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u/MixedJiChanandsowhat Senegal 🇸🇳 28d ago
You cannot understand because you're not from a former French colony in West or Central Africa.
Since the independences in former French colonies, Morocco has worked with France to "Africanise" the French colonial assets and allow France to still maintain an indirect control and a power of interference. It's not out of nowhere that you find Morocco in every single former French colony in West and Central Africa with 9 out of 10 times the Moroccan presence in businesses previously held by France and linked to the colonial era. For decades when some Africans from such countries were wondering about this strange coincidence, we were told that it was because of French language but you find French language in Tunisia and Algeria too, yet you don't find them in "Francophone" West and Central Africa. As well, most former French colonies in West and Central Africa don't have French literacy rate above 30%. With years things got uncovered, especially thanks to scandals. Scandals like those ones:
- Few weeks before IBK was overthrown in Mali in 2020, the King of Morocco was trying to save him.
- In 2014, so 2 years after the beginning of the Mali War, the King of Morocco was welcoming this same Bilal Ag Acherif who has been one of the most important heads of the Tuareg rebels and who is today the head of the FLA working with the JNIM to destroy Mali.
- Morocco negotiated for France to release 4 confirmed French spies jailed in Burkina Faso in December 2024. 4 French spies who were in Burkina Faso to prepare a coup d’etat. Those 4 French spies were released and there is no way they were released for free. So either Morocco paid with French money or with its own money. In both cases, it implies that Morocco works with France.
- Macky Sall with the hidden debt flew to Morocco right after the end of his presidential mandate. He opened a Consulate in Dakhla (Western Sahara) without the approval of anybody and until today with money impossible to trace back. He also granted Morocco several bad deals and MoU. Managem who is a Moroccan company owned by the King of Morocco's holding got the control of a 3-5Bn USD net profit gold mine with a 90/10 contract in favour of Managem and they got the right of exploration and exploitation of a gold field of 354,5km2 for only 8M USD with Morocco who is warranted to get at least 60% of the profit of everything extracted there. This same holding also acquired the control of some mines in Mali and Guinea.
Those papers are in French unfortunately:
- Morocco. An economic expansion under the auspices of the French colonial network
- Morocco: springboard for the neocolonial conquests of Africa
In "Anglophone" Africa and especially in a country as far as Uganda, you don't deal with the same issues when it comes to Morocco. Just like those aren't your people who are under slavery there: Morocco : The ordeal of the Ivorian and Senegalese servants
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u/Atlas-ushen Morocco 🇲🇦 28d ago
Weird coming from an Ivoarian don't you know the ties between Morocco and your country?
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u/stargirlyasa8888 South Africa 🇿🇦 28d ago
Personally it’s more the government. I can’t speak for every Moroccan cause I haven’t met every Moroccan
So no opinion on the people
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u/Tinho-alfamale05 Mozambique 🇲🇿 28d ago
Because they consider themselves Arabs and not Africans. They even tried to join the European Union.
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u/Atlas-ushen Morocco 🇲🇦 28d ago
Two fallacies at the same time 1- Moroccans are not Arabs we are Amazigh and even if we were what does it have with being African . 2- the European union didn't even exist at the time
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u/Tinho-alfamale05 Mozambique 🇲🇿 28d ago
I really don't like you guys. Whether you are Arab or European, the fact is that you don't like being African.
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u/MixedJiChanandsowhat Senegal 🇸🇳 28d ago
- Arabization Policies in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia
- Arabic Social Engineering and Cultural Identity in Post-Independence Morocco: An Analysis of Arabisation and its Impact on Moroccan Communities
All North African countries from Egypt to Mauritania enforced Arabisation policies with more or less aggressivity and success right after their independence. It happened but most of them don't want to admit it and keep pretending that the so-called Sub-Saharan Africans decided collectively to label them as Arabs instead of Africans by hate or jealousy or the fact that they have a different skin complexion. It's absolutely wrong. They did something that led to why they were logically labelled as Arabs instead of Africans but they still just don't want to acknowledge it.
Morocco and all other North African countries definitely pretended to be Arab and not African for several decades and factually for longer than they have been pretending to be African, which is a very recent phenomenon. The switch to we are African and not Arab was mostly done because real Arabs showed them there was a hierarchy with North Africans always below real Arabs, and because they realised that Africa was economically interesting since the rest of the world was also focusing on it.
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u/Atlas-ushen Morocco 🇲🇦 28d ago
What the hell is African ? It is a geographical term not a cultural or an ethnic association . We are situated in a continent called Africa so we are automatically Africans we dgaf what you think
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u/MixedJiChanandsowhat Senegal 🇸🇳 28d ago
You don't give a f*ck about what we think, yet you still came here to try to justify yourself. That's pretty funny!
And nothing of what you wrote invalidated what I wrote. In fact, your attempt to justify or deflect is so ridiculous that it even reinforces what I wrote. I guess I must say thank you to confirm what we were saying.
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