Decolonization of Africa · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Sétif and Guelma massacre (1945)
On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Sétif and Guelma”
8 May 1945 — As Europe celebrates victory, French forces answer a nationalist march with weeks of reprisals across eastern Algeria — thousands of Algerians dead by any count. Many date the war of 1954 to this day. Remember them.
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- Colonial Africa after World War II (chapter 1 of Decolonization of Africa)
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- The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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