A post from Day 5 of my 2022 Trip to Morocco

On Day 4 I had written a great post during my 7-hour car ride from The Atlas Mountains to Meknes. It covered how the palaces and museums I saw related to French colonialism in Northern Africa, and how Yves-Saint Laurent, as a French citizen, got drafted into the Algerian War for Independence, and how that almost destroyed his brilliant career. But how persevered and founded arguably the most successful design label during the 60s, 70s and 80s. I discussed how African nations have a distrust of the West, and deservedly so using Morocco and Algeria as examples. This is part of the reason that half of African Nations, including Morocco,…