He won global fame for his politically charged films about the fight for independence in Algeria and was central to building the country’s film industry.
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He gave up a lucrative contract in France to help create a football team to represent the Algerian resistance in the fight for independence. Algerians never forgot this.
Fanon’s famous book was translated to isiZulu by South African writer and scholar Makhosazana Xaba.
The two football-loving nations are also political allies with a shared history.
Idir’s songs gave Kabyles a sense that their culture counted: that their customs and traditions could form a part of a modern Algerian nation.
As the gilets noirs seek the right to remain in France, there is an echo from history regarding the challenge they face.
The Algerian revolution had a profound effect on both Mandela and Fanon’s thinking about colonisation, oppression and freedom.
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