MIGRATION IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE SAHEL: Tensions, Uprising, and Dispatches from the Region 2005- 2025 (Hard Cover)
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| Author: | Cheref, Abdelkader | |
| Year: | 2025 | |
| Pages: | 280 | |
| ISBN: | 1-4955-1331-9 978-1-4955-1331-2 | |
| Price: | $199.95 + shipping | |
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How has Algeria, the Mecca of Revolution between 1954 and 1962, fared since successfully throwing off one hundred and thirty years of despotic French rule? What has been the fate of neighboring Tunisia and Morocco, former Protectorates of France whose transition to independence in 1956 appeared at the time to have been relatively peaceful? And further to the south, why has the government of Mali rejected any intervention by French armed forces in the region – after decades of tolerating France’s military “aid” on their soil? How, when, and why did the narco-jihadists that we read about in the headlines gain control of the Sahel? For answers to these and other questions, Abdelkader Cheref’s collection of newspaper articles since 2005 provides succinct and penetrating answers. Published here together for the first time, these articles bring the recent past, and particularly the repeated crises in this part of Africa and the Mediterranean, vividly alive.
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Not surprisingly, then, post-independence Algeria takes center stage in this collection. Algeria was France’s only settler
colony, and by the time its war of national liberation began in 1954, some one million white Europeans had expropriated, impoverished, and disenfranchised a local population of ten million Muslim Algerians. No French government has yet fully confronted these crimes, much less apologized for them. Cheref, however, maintains that the Algerian people today neither need nor want such an apology. They know that they liberated themselves from colonialism over sixty years ago and take pride in their resistance. What matters instead to all citizens across North Africa right now is achieving liberté, égalité and fraternité from their own postcolonial governments. When it comes to understanding this struggle, Abdelkader Cheref’s moving dispatches from North Africa are indispensable reading.
colony, and by the time its war of national liberation began in 1954, some one million white Europeans had expropriated, impoverished, and disenfranchised a local population of ten million Muslim Algerians. No French government has yet fully confronted these crimes, much less apologized for them. Cheref, however, maintains that the Algerian people today neither need nor want such an apology. They know that they liberated themselves from colonialism over sixty years ago and take pride in their resistance. What matters instead to all citizens across North Africa right now is achieving liberté, égalité and fraternité from their own postcolonial governments. When it comes to understanding this struggle, Abdelkader Cheref’s moving dispatches from North Africa are indispensable reading.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: AFRICA
CHAPTER ONE
Tensions and Uprising
CHAPTER TWO
Migration
CHAPTER THREE
Authoritarianism & Human Rights
PART TWO: ALGERIA
CHAPTER FOUR
Algiers: “Mecca of Revolutions”
CHAPTER FIVE
Civil War (1992-2002)
CHAPTER SIX
Post-Independence Authoritarianism
CHAPTER SEVEN
Human Rights
CHAPTER EIGHT
Women’s Rights and Ethnicity
CONCLUSION
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: AFRICA
CHAPTER ONE
Tensions and Uprising
CHAPTER TWO
Migration
CHAPTER THREE
Authoritarianism & Human Rights
PART TWO: ALGERIA
CHAPTER FOUR
Algiers: “Mecca of Revolutions”
CHAPTER FIVE
Civil War (1992-2002)
CHAPTER SIX
Post-Independence Authoritarianism
CHAPTER SEVEN
Human Rights
CHAPTER EIGHT
Women’s Rights and Ethnicity
CONCLUSION