In Essaouira, the Human Rights Forum, the intellectual extension of the Gnaoua Festival, opened its 13th edition by placing young people at the heart of the debate. Often portrayed as disengaged or disillusioned, they emerged over the course of the discussions as a generation inventing new forms of expression, transmission and commitment. Artists, writers, sociologists, filmmakers, craftspeople, poets and political leaders all pointed to the same conclusion: the younger generation no longer