In a surreal segment aired on France Inter, journalist Léa Salamé flippantly suggested a grotesque “exchange”: trading the 9,000 skulls of Algerian men and women stored in Paris’ Musée de l’Homme for the supposed “liberation” of the controversial writer Boualem Sansal. This offhand remark, delivered with alarming nonchalance, betrays a profound ignorance of colonial history, a troubling contempt for Algerian memory, and an indecency that demands condemnation. When ‘Humor’ Becomes an Insult to the Dead What does such a suggestion truly signify? That even in death, decapitated and displaced, Algerian bodies may still be used as bargaining chips? That a mutilated national memory can be reduced to a rhetorical device in a radio broadcast? Behind this tasteless comment lies an unspeakable idea: the remains of anti-colonial resistance fighters, displayed as trophies by a former empire, are still treated as negotiable objects of French discretion. A Colonial Memory Still Denied The 9,000 sku...
Algeria, the Mecca of revolutionaries, has always defended just causes; its positions have today earned it the hostility of certain parties. The purpose of this blog is to defend Algeria and to deconstruct the lies that harm the image of our beautiful motherland.