French Colonialism in Africa

French colonialism was doomed, of course, when the countries of what would later be called the Third World heard the news of self-determination articulated at the United Nations. But despite the nascent anti-imperialism that emerged globally after World War I, there was a strong residue of commitment on the part of imperialist and colonialist powers to hang on to their antique and exotic geographical treasures. A presumption of imperialistic privilege by European powers was fundamental to the exercise of authority over sundry Asian and African locales that had more to do with the history of Europe in Asia or Africa than with the indigenous locales themselves. Longtime nation-state rivalries au courant on European soil even after World War I continued to play themselves out in the far reaches of empire. The feeling in western Europe appears to have been that if (say) France or England gave up Asian or African spheres

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1940 1943 Vichy Manifesto of Algerian People AML AML 1945 Sétif ratissage UDMA Movem't/ Triumph / Democratic Liberties, MTLD/OS Ben Bella heads OS Prison MTLD/OS demise B. Bella to 1947 De facto Viollette: Assembly Eclipse Exile Cairo: Rev. Committee Unity & 1950 Electoral, governance fraud Nat'l Algerian Movement (MNA) Action (CRUA)——> FLN/ALN 1954 1956 FLN ALN destroys MNA ALN call to arms FLN/ALN TO '61 France/OAS <——THE WAR——> FLN/ALN What this general, big-picture schematic does not capture are the myriad dynamics of political and methodological rivalry that attended Algeria's ultimate achievement of independence. Nor does it account for the multiple actors in the actual prosecution of the war for independence, and their multiple accounts of the war, its preliminaries, and its aftermath. However, what can be seen is an ineluctable progression of Algerian nationalism toward the umbrella of the FLN and ALN, its military apparatus arrayed against that of France and French intelligence. The table shows that the FLN
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