This book is a collection of poems written by Badi in the last phase of his life. In it, he resolutely confronts human fragility and death, universal experiences. Living in exile in a refugee camp in southern Algeria did not deter the poet in his old age from looking death, which was inexorably approaching, in the face – quite the contrary. He does so supported by his Islamic faith and the conviction of having lived correctly, justly and fully as a man belonging to a nomadic people who belong to the desert, who fight against the occupation of their neighbouring country Morocco, who resist united in the refugee camps, fighting against powerlessness and despair, feelings that the Sahrawi people cannot afford. The approach of death is an opportunity to exhort and humbly take stock of a life.
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In these poems, the force of the poet’s vital apprenticeship is palpable: they draw from the source of Saharan culture, the waters that irrigate the intertwined roots of Islamic culture and Bedouin oral culture. Badi’s Sahrawi and universal poetry conveys a very powerful message. This is the first of thirteen books in the General Anthology of Western Saharan Poets and Poetry, a project supported by the Department of Social Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Madrid, the SADR Ministry of Culture, the NGO Antropología en Acción and the University of Tifariti. The critical edition of the poems was produced by Mohamed Ali Laman, Mohamed Salem Aldelfath (Ebnu) and Juan Carlos Gimeno Martín (Autonomous University of Madrid).
- Title : Exhortación
- Author : Mohamed Salem Badi
- Editor : Última Línea
- Date of publication : 2022
- Number of pages : 110
- ISBN : 978-84-18492-26-6
- Price : 9,95 €