Ali Sidqi Azaykou also called Dda Ali, was a Moroccan Berber

Berber people

Berbers are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch...

 poet, historian, philosopher and critic.
He was an active partisan for the rights of the Berbers in Morocco.». He has greatly influenced the cultural Berber movements..

Biography

Ali Sidqi Azaykou was born (1942) in the village of Igran n tuinght in the High Atlas

High Atlas

High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas Mountains is a mountain range in central Morocco in Northern Africa.The High Atlas rises in the west at the Atlantic Ocean and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan-Algerian border. At the Atlantic and to the southwest the range drops abruptly...

 in the surroundings of Taroudant

Taroudant

Taroudant is a Moroccan city located in the Sous Valley in the southern part of the country. It is situated east of Agadir on the road to Ouarzazate and the Sahara desert and south of Marrakech. It is called the "Grandmother of Marrakech" because it looks like a smaller Marrakech with its...

 in the Souss valley in Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

. He began his primary education in his native village and ended them in Marrakesh where he also followed his secondary education and entered the national teacher training college..

Books

. Collection of Berber poetry. 1988.. Éd. de la Faculté des Lettres, Kénitra

Kenitra

Kenitra is a city in Morocco, formerly known as Port Lyautey. It is a port on the Sebou River, has a population in 2004 of 359,142 and is the capital of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region. During the Cold War Kenitra's U.S...

, 1992.. Collection of Berber poetry. Rabat, 1995.. Recueil d'articles. Éd. Centre Tarik Ibn Zyad, Rabat, 2002. Introduction by Ahmed Toufiq

Ahmed Toufiq

Ahmed Toufiq is a well-known writer and scholar from Morocco. He was born in 1943 in the High Atlas near the city of Marrakech.He presented his PhD in 1979 on the subject of social history in the Moroccan rural areas in the 19th century and worked as a professor of history in the Faculty of Letters...

., 2002., 2004., Éd. Annajah Al Jadida, 1993, Casablanca.