Briefing from ROAPE Volume 33 Number 108
New Saharawi Poetry: Brief Anthology

To have a better understanding of Saharawi contemporary poetry, written in Spanish, it is necessary to start talking about the context in which it emerges and develops. This poetry of ours is very recent; it has just been taken from the oven and can only be eaten as a tender piece of bread. What we, the poets who form the ‘Generación de la Amistad’ (Friendship Generation), have in common is that we write in Spanish. But, why such a name, why the Friendship Generation? Because it is thanks to friendship that we have survived, and that we could also study. We have all lived the same experience: the exodus from our homeland, Western Sahara, caused by the Moroccan occupation; then, the exile. Later, the second exile, more than exile, was an opportunity, a grant to study in Cuba.