Barbaro iraun

"I feel that I have so many things to say that it is better not to be too learned. I must preserve something like barbarism, I must remain barbarous." Journalist and activist Louisa Yousfi understands this quote by the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine as a magic formula: both an aesthetic slogan and a political fable. In this political and literary manifesto, this perspective allows him to interview the writers Chester Himes and Toni Morrison, the rap musicians Booba and PNL, and other strong individuals who have faced the empire, against civilizing Western domestication. Because this booklet is part of the anti-racist and decolonial collective movement; specifically, in the words of the author: "through politics I understood that we are not condemned to negotiate our small place with shame on the backs of other barbarians, but that it is up to us to think about how to continue the fight for dignity started by our ancestors".