Lalla Fadhma N’Soumer: Kabyle resistance fighter, heroine of a musical show

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The Kabyle heroine who resisted French colonization is the central character of the musical show presented at Point Fort d’Aubervilliers on April 1 and 2.

What do we know about this incredible female figure who took the troop of an army of Kabyle peasants against the French colonists who “pacified” Algeria with the force of bayonets? Few things, apart from a few dates, a few landmarks, the accounts given by the French soldiers in their campaign diaries, and of course, what Kabyle popular memory has preserved of this…