Is Algeria Still Defined by its Liberation Struggle?

On the 60th anniversary of its end, Algerian memory of the War of Independence remains a thorny issue. 

Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War of Independence.
Soldiers of the National Liberation Army during the Algerian War of Independence, 1958. Museum of African Art (Belgrade)/Wiki Commons.

‘The war gave rise to an anti-colonial hyper-memory: one where the fallen are a constant presence’

Martin Evans, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Sussex and author of Algeria: France’s Undeclared War (Oxford University Press, 2013)

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