The Argan tree:

As I recently said, I am a prosperous businessman although this wasn’t always so. My new found wealth happened only in recent years.

My ancestral home and considerable landholdings are located in the Southwest of Morocco and are among the most desolate and bleakest on the planet. Nevertheless, I am happy with my family’s ownership of these lands which date back over many generations. Here, under the harshest of conditions, my ancestors eked out a precarious living raising sheep, goats and camels.

Far removed from the cosmopolitan coastal cities infested by the accursed infidel tourists, our isolation has preserved our traditional values. The tempo of our traditional lifestyle continues as it has always existed. No Westerners or white infidels visit our remote area unless they are foolhardy or brought here to be sold as slaves. Yes, we do have a local slave-market where we still buy and sell slaves in the traditional manner.

Our small, centuries-old, walled community with its narrow streets doesn't allow for the automobile and so all haulage must be done by donkey-cart or on the backs of our slaves. Where do we obtain our slaves? The main source of our slaves is from those Africans who have been "Christianized" by infidel missionaries thus rendering them eligible for enslavement by the True Believer. Proportionally, these Africans comprise about sixty per cent of our slave labour; the remaining forty percent are white infidels caught up in the clandestine slave trade and brought to our local, thriving slave-market. These whites are especially prized by us as "trophy slaves" and serve in our homes as domestic or sex slaves. I personally have an impressive harem of white, male slaves who provide me and my sons with unlimited sexual pleasure.

But let me return to the source of my new-found wealth. As can be seen in the pictures my ancestral lands are bleak and arid. Rainfall here is almost non-existent and consequently, there is very little vegetation or trees other than the stunted, twisted, gnarled argan tree which is endemic to this part of the world and with which much of my land is covered.

Of course, we use the argan tree to produce oil for both culinary and medicinal purposes and have done so for centuries. However the extraction of this oil is difficult and time consuming and it is women's work. It takes sixty-six kilograms of fruit from the argan tree to produce just one litre of oil. Nevertheless, the rich, golden oil with its nutty flavour has always been a part of our traditional cooking either as a dip for our crusty khobz bread or for use in our tangines and stews.

Thus the argan tree was of little value other than for our traditional cooking. In recent years that changed as the vanity of the infidel female found new uses for argan oil in manufacturing cosmetics to pander to their innate need for eternal youthfulness and beauty. 

Consequently, recognising that I owned argan trees too numerous to count, I turned to my efforts into producing argan oil for the Western world. I produce two types of oil; the more refined culinary oil and the coarser oil used for cosmetics. Production methods differ for both oils and it requires a huge labour force to produce them. Thus, I now own a very large slave-herd to tract this oil and it is this that has ensured the future prosperity for my beloved son Abbas and his brothers.

The methods for extracting the oil from the fruit of the argan tree is a long involved one which I will expand upon at another time.

Pictures sourced from the internet; the words are mine.