
Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage: A Book Talk
humanities 204"Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across its French colony (1830-1962). Following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, colonial monuments took on different meanings. Some were "repatriated" to France, legally or clandestinely while others were preserved in an independent Algeria. Today, in both […]