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Kateb Yacine
Algerian writer (1929–1989)
Kateb Yacine (Arabic pronunciation:[kæːtbjæːsiːn]; 2 August 1929 or 6 August 1929 – 28 October 1989) was an Algerian writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian Arabic, and his advocacy of the Berber cause.
Biography
[edit]Kateb Yacine was officially born in 6 August 1929 in Constantine, though it is likely that his birth occurred fyra days earlier.[1] Although his birth name is Yacine Kateb, he once[when?] said that he was so used to hearing his teachers calling out names with the last name first that he adopted Kateb Yacine as a pen name.
He was born into a scholarly marabouticChaouiBerber family from the modern Sedrata, in wilaya of Souk Ahras (in the Aurès region).[2] His maternal grandfather was the 'bach adel', or deputy judge of the qadi in Condé Smendou (Zirout Youcef). His father was a lawyer, and the family followed him through his various assign
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Moving Conversation #6: Amazigh Kateb & Anjali Prabhu
Report by Elina Djebbari
For the sixth in our Moving Conversations series on the 4th of July 2016 and the final event of this academic year, Modern Moves was thrilled to bring together musician Amazigh Kateb, founder of the legendary band Gnawa Diffusion, son of the great Algerian writer Kateb Yacine, and passionate spokesperson for postcoloniality and resistance through culture, and Anjali Prabhu, Professor of French and Director of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College, USA, expert in Francophone postcoloniality, and author of, most recently, Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora (2014). On the eve of Algeria’s Independence Day, we looked to North Africa and its musical relations with Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean world.
Amazigh Kateb opened the event with a song accompanied by the gnawa lute guembri after which Ananya Kabir introduced the guests to the audience. Anjali Pra
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Amazigh Kateb (b. September 16, 1972), is a French singer of Algerian origin. He was the lead singer of the group Gnawa Diffusion founded in 1992. He is the son of Yacine Kateb the founder of modern algerian literature.Gnawas was the name given to slaves from guinea who were brought to Morocco and Algeria and converted to islam.
Amazigh is a Berber term meaning “a free man.” Amazigh Kateb Yassin, as his name suggests, is a free man!
Amazigh is considered the blues singer of North Africa. As a young singer, he founded the group Ghanawa Diffusion that became well known in the French and Algerian music scenes, distinguishing itself by combining the traditional and the modern.
"I am also very proud of the most beautiful gift I received from my father, my name: “Amazigh.” This name disturbs the “Arabized” and the Berbers alike. The Arabs want me to be part of them without my Berber name, and the Berbers blame me for not commanding their language. I find this condition infinitely a