The peoples who have no memory are condemned to die. North Africa has a fabulous past, rich in its men and its events.This book aims not only to offer an uncompromising reading of history, paying tribute to the men and women who count and have counted to evolve societies, but to address the issues that anger: the place of Berbers in these Arab-African societies, the status of women and ethnic minorities, the role of foreign powers in the instrumentation of religious radicalism, the interference of the new colonialists that are the Americans, the Chinese or the Russians, or the chances that the nations of the Maghreb to embrace modernity.This work is a cry of love for a human group that must absolutely seize the opportunities for emancipation that the international context is giving it.