Algeria’s Significant Role in Africa’s Wars of Liberation

Algeria’s Significant Role in Africa’s Wars of Liberation

July 5th marks Algerian Independence Day. In 1962, it became the first African country to liberate itself from 132 years of French occupation and colonization, having waged an eight-year-long guerrilla war. But Algeria wasn’t done fighting imperialism. It poured its energy and resources into helping other colonized countries, positioning itself as the spearhead of Pan-African and internationalist action at the time.It is widely known that Afro C…