The Unforeseen Development of the Kabyle Question in Contemporary Algeria
- 1 July 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Government and Opposition
- Vol. 17 (3) , 312-334
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1982.tb00687.x
Abstract
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INHABITANTS OF GREATER Kabylia and their Arabic-speaking compatriots constitutes one of the fundamental issues of contemporary Algerian politics. This relationship has been neither accurately conceived nor adequately taken into account in the existing literature on modern Algeria. The growth of popular Berberism in Kabylia, articulating widespread opposition to the government's Arabization policy and the demand for official recognition of the Berber language, went unnoticed by outside observers until 1980. It had been visible since at least 1974, but could not be accommodated by prevailing conceptions either of Berber society in general or of Kabyle history in particular.Keywords
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