Archive for April, 2008
The Amazigh Poetry Forum in Rif
The Amazigh Poetry Forum in Rif
Poetry has a highly considerable position in the Amazigh culture and literature. It is the fundmental inductive and refresher of the collective memory of Imazighen in the Rif. Tafsut Association for Culture and Development organized, in coordination with the Amazigh Studies Department, The Forum of the First Spring of Amazigh Poetry in Rif. The two-day literary event afforeded an appealing opportunity for poets, researchers...
Imazighen in the Ghetto
Imazighen
Once upon a time, European colonialism was one of the means through which colonized people got access to modernity. And Amazigh (Berber) North Africa was no exception despite the long history of interaction between this part of the world and Europe. It was through the experience of French colonialism that North of Africa entered massively the history of the twentieth century much different from what it had been before. The currently pitiful...
“A Bride in Stone” by Tifswin Groupe of the Amazigh Theatre
Tifswin Groupe
The events of the play take place in two times; time of narration and time of the narrated, where the transition between the two times is accomplished through telling the story of ‘Afulay’, the youthful shepherd who found himself in the immemorial time.
The narration takes place in a courtyard named ‘Azzarag ‘ in a pictured village where people are accustomed to the regular visits of Butizit, the unknown tale-teller.
This...