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I HAD HEARD about Lydia Ourahmane long before setting out to write about her curiously affecting art, had heard about her improbable backstory as the child of an Algerian father and a Malaysian Chinese mother who had fallen in love at a school for evangelical Christians in the UK. I’d seen images of her work, too—invitingly minimalist installations perfumed by mystery, chaos, and accident. Our wide-ranging conversations began in the pandemic’s second year, and before long I had grown accus...

As Canberra and Paris repair ties, presenting France as a “Pacific country” would undermine regional independence.

Thabo Mbkei reflects on the African Union, Africa Day and his foundation

For Africa to succeed in its efforts to achieve its renaissance demands strategic thinking, writes Thabo Mbeki.

19/05/2022 - CANNES 2022: Philippe Faucon’s humble mastery of cinematographic pithiness puts under the microscope the cruel page of history of local soldiers engaged on the French side during the Algerian war

19/05/2022 - CANNES 2022: Philippe Faucon’s humble mastery of cinematographic pithiness puts under the microscope the cruel page of history of local soldiers engaged on the French side during the Algerian war

On March 18, 1962, the Évian Accords paved the way for Algeria's independence from France after more than seven years of a gruesome war. Sixty years on, the wounds of that bloody conflict are still d…

The future of ailing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has not been settled – and the nation's powerful figures are nervous. The country is still puzzling over the question of who might succeed him. By Christoph Erhardt

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a colonial subject from the small Caribbean island of Martinique, then a...

Alistair Horne observed succinctly that the “Algerian War has effectively crossed the Mediterranean to France.”