Josie Fanon's Revolutionary Algeria Reloaded: Once more, O Frantz, the 'Wretched of the Earth'!

As winds of revolutionary change sweeps across Algeria after blowing over Tunisia and Egypt we are reminded of the late Josie Fanon:

The first days of October 1988, Algiers reached a fevered pitch; under Josie's balcony in El-Biar, adolescents in revolt were the first to set fire to police cars.

The next day and the following days, this time in the heart of Algiers, the army swarmed the capital, and, confronted with peaceful demonstrations, opened fire: six hundred young people were shot down.

From one end of the rioting town to the other, not being able to meet, we would speak on the phone: I still hear today Josie's enraged voice commenting endlessly on the scenes that she'd observed or that people had told her about.

"Once more, O Frantz, the 'wretched of the earth!'" (92)

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