Review of Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik, Maghreb noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 2023. Pp. 241. ISBN: 9781503634824.

Maghreb Noir is the historical account of an understudied phenomenon, which is the role the Maghreb played in the development of a post-colonial Pan-Africanism, intended both as a state-led project and as a state-skeptical movement (15). The book positions itself in a very recent and thriving debate on the multifaceted identities in the Maghreb, which has emerged thanks to the climate of freedom of expression after the popular revolutions in 2011. The Maghreb, recently introduced to a new political and migratory context, is invested by a widespread identitarian quest (Pouessel 2012).