I Was a French Muslim: Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter Mokhtefi Mokhtar
I Was a French Muslim: Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter Mokhtefi Mokhtar This engaging memoir provides a vivid account of a childhood under French colonization and a life dedicated to fighting…
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I Was a French Muslim: Memories of an Algerian Freedom Fighter Mokhtefi Mokhtar
This engaging memoir provides a vivid account of a childhood under French colonization and a life dedicated to fighting for the freedom and dignity of the Algerian people.The son of a butcher and the youngest of six siblings, Mokhtar Mokhtefi was born in 1935 and grew up in a village de colonisation roughly one hundred kilometers south of the capital of Algiers. In 1957, at age twenty-two, he joined the National Liberation Army (ALN), the armed wing of the National Liberation Front (FLN), which had been waging war against France since 1954. Thanks to the efforts of a supportive teacher, he became the only child in the family to progress to high school, attending a French lyc e that deepened his belief in the need for independence.
After completing rigorous training in radio transmissions at a military base in Morocco, he went on to become an officer in the infamous