الثقافة و الاستعمار : تجربة الجزائر في العهد الكولونيالي

Abstract EN

This article highlights the position of colonial policy vis a vis to the Algerian identity and the reaction of the political, social and cultural currents from that position, which aims to erase the Algerian identity and dissolving it into French society.

And prominent figures that have appeared on the political stage during this period are Prince(Emir) Khaled, Missali El Hadj, Ibn Badis and Ferhat Abbas and and his followers of the French Community integration who advocate that they do not believe in the existence of an Algerian nation.

These views felt on deaf ears and no consents by the Algerian people, and Ibn Badis has made it clear that the Algerian nation exist as all the Nations of the world had been found with its rich and important history and with its religious, linguistic and cultural unity.

This refusal was a starting point in the transformation of Abbas’ political thought towards France, which lead him to abandon the idea of integration and positioning near the scientists and the people's Party and distinguish an Algerian country which he denied in the past.

So he separated from assimilationist mainstream that led by Ibn Touhami and Ibn djelloul and he demanded in his declaration the self-determination of peoples, and granted Algeria a Constitution and demanded the unity of the Algerian soil and the recognition of the independence of Algeria.

Finally, Ferhat Abbas announced his joining to the Algerian National Liberation Front(FLN), which United the Algerian Political Parties around a single objective which is the independence of Algeria, and placed himself in the service of the Algerian revolution.

And he became the President of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic between 1958-1961.

And thus ended the myth of “Algeria is French Republic”, Thanks to the strong coherence national unity of the Algerian people with the national issue, this unity which achieved victory and sovereignty for Algeria in 1962, and here we have the right to talk about independent Algerian state with the sovereign territory .