Life and its mysteries unveiled by traditional Berber tales, by Annick Zennaki, Al Bouraq Éditions

Life and its mysteries unveiled by traditional Berber tales, by Annick Zennaki, Al Bouraq Éditions

“At the time when all beings spoke”, man conversed freely with the hedgehog or the snake. Under the hospitable shade of the jujube tree, the lark sang, with the spring, the beginning of work in the fields. Elements , animals, plants and people, each in its place, united their energies in a common destiny: to protect life by sparing the future.
Attentive to the secret words of the surrounding world, listening to the mysterious songs of nature, the powerful civilization of the Imazighen (the Berbers) knew how, for nearly ten thousand years, to preserve the pillars of its original culture: its language and its oral literature.
Let us use and abuse, without further delay, the famous Mediterranean hospitality whose storytellers will make us discover the hidden meaning and the raison d'être. With an open tale , let us be welcomed into this imaginary world populated by strokes of genius where we will discover why storks deliver newborn babies. Let us be guided by the human voice over these stories, of an astonishing modernity, which provide readers of the 3rd millennium, a feeling of well-being and security.

About the Author: Annick Zennaki

Annick Zennaki, graduate in Ethnology (University of Nanterre-Paris X), holder of a Berber thesis at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, is agrégé in Grammar, passionate about anthropological and historical research. She stayed in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and worked in schools in the Comoros. She currently lives in Béarn where she divides her time between writing, family and nature protection. After a pleasant and educational rewriting of the history of the spoken language of the French in her essay "Histoires d'Europe" (Editions Anagramme 2011), she retraces, in a historical novel, the dramatic journey of a learned Algerian poet Abdelaziz Zenagui , who came to live in Paris at the very beginning of the 20th century “Mediterranean, Dream of the Impossible? (L'Harmattan 2012).