Word: messali
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Algeria. In the oldest of France's North African possessions, and the most "assimilated" to French culture, there is an independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...