Algeria was a French Colonial Province which France remaimed in control of the region since the year 1830. It was the first colonisation of an Arab country since the days of the Crusades. Keeping the authority in Algeria was becoming quite challenging during The Fourt Republic of France with separatist factions like National Liberation Front (FLN, Front de libération nationale), gathering more influence within the Algerian region.

FLN led the struggle for independence through armed resistance and guerrilla warfare. This resulted with the emergent of The Algerian War of Independence which officialy lasted for 8 years.

While the French government was having internal discussions about how to handle the crisis, the FLN was receiving political support from other nations. Algeria’s eventual independence in 1962 marked a crucial turning point in the history of decolonization and reshaped the geopolitical landscape of North Africa.

“Colonialism is not a thinking machine, is not a body endowed with reason. It is violence in the state of nature and can only bow to greater violence.”

(The Wretched of the World, Frantz Fanon, 1961)