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Mon, 11.01.1954

Algeria Gains Independence From France

On this date in 1954, Algeria gained independence from France.

For more than a century, the Algerian people fought a permanent armed, moral, and political struggle against the invader and all its forms of oppression. This began after the aggression of 1830 against the Algerian State and the occupation of the country by the French colonialist forces. In the conflict the National Liberation Front called for the mobilization of all the energies of the nation, the process of struggle for independence having reached its final realization stage.

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we were raised on the lower eastside of detroit, close to harlem, new york, around the block from watts, next to the Mississippi delta in north america. FIRST WORLD (for Cheikh Anta Diop) by Haki R. Madhubuti
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