Rabat - American Search engine Google and social network Facebook are sharing with Moroccans the celebration the 61st Independence Day from French and Spanish colonialism, celebrated each year on November 18.
Rabat – American Search engine Google and social network Facebook are sharing with Moroccans the celebration the 61st Independence Day from French and Spanish colonialism, celebrated each year on November 18.
As in recent years, Google has placed a photo framed with the two major colors of the Moroccan flag, red and green, on their Moroccan homepage. The giant search engine also replaced its third letter “O” with Marrakech’s renowned Mosque, Koutoubia.
This year Facebook also decided to join in the fun on their Moroccan homepage, happily displaying Morocco’s flag, accompanied by this congratulatory message: “Happy Independence Day! Best wishes for happiness and prosperity.”
Independence Day in Morocco is often celebrated among older generations of Moroccans with the telling and retelling of heroic tales of courage from Morocco’s fight for freedom from what they remember as the tight fist of colonialism.
