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June 22, 2016

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A Pebble in the River, novel.

Langaa Publishing (Cameroon), African Books Collective (Oxford) A kli is an old man now. He is in prison. It is from there that he begins telling his story, the story of his village, of his people. He speaks of his struggle against colonial France and against terrorism. This is a tale of revolution, war, torture, dispossession, corruption, intolerance, betrayal, religious extremism but, above all, a tale of resistance. A tale of inevitability and loss. The loss of faith in a higher power. He doubts everything. Religion, God, power. The loss of those closest to him, the burden of their absence, the regret of not being able to protect them, forged him into a cynic. Akli is a man without hope for a better future, a man who wishes for death. But this is also a story of love. Unconditional, pure love. The ineffable kind of love which he has for his country, his land, his mountains, his family, his friends, his people. A story of h...

The Kabyle (Amazigh) version of Allegoria

"TUGNA is the word in Kabyle language that is used to symbolize the word ALLEGORIA from Latin which means allegory. But in the Kabyle language, tugna symbolizes the word allegory so we could say that it's an allegory within an allegory. Proud to be able to present this version of ALLEGORIA in Kabyle language which is part of the Amazigh (Berber) language and culture present in North Africa since 3000 years before Christ. North Africa has been the scene over thousands of years of various colonizing times. Romans, Greeks, Arabs, French, all passed and left their traces there, but the Kabyle language survives thru the spoken word. As an homage to the native language of the writer who wrote the text for the narration in the English version of ALLEGORIA, it could only be the natural thing to do to make this version in Noufel's own language, which is one of the oldest languages in the world that is still alive. A language that survived through the spoken word and ...

News on ICORN website

ALLEGORIA by Noufel Bouzeboudja wins award Allegoria The cinematic poem ALLEGORIA, written by Noufel Bouzeboudja and directed by Nobilis Bellator, has received the award by Awardeo Company, which palmes the best movie of the week on the platform Vimeo. Featured on several websites and broadcasted on the Spanish TV stations TVE 1 and TVE 2, Allegoria is a collaboration project realised by 5 international artists: Nobilis Bellator (Spain), Conrad Harvey (USA), Bamboocha (Serbia), Nenad Novaković (Serbia) and Noufel. Noufel was an ICORN guest writer in Fanø, Denmark, and is currently living in Paris where he is directing a play in two languages Kabyle and French. He often goes to his homeland Kabylia (Algeria) where he performs his texts in festivals and public readings. Along with other social and cultural actors and university teachers, he has founded a poetry competition. This competition is planned to be annual and touring from a village to another. Noufel's wish is ...

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