Loun%C3%A8s Matoub
Louns Matoub was a famous Berber Kabyle singer, poet, thinker and mandole player who was a prominent advocate of the Berber cause, human rights and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.
Lounes Matoub was born onJanuary 1956 in the village of Taourirt Moussa in Algerian Kabylie. Atyears of age he built his first guitar from an empty car oil can and composed his first songs as a teenager. His political and cultural identity was awakened by armed confrontations between Kabyles and government forces in 19631964. In 1968, the Algerian government introduced a policy of Arabization in the education system. Matoub reacted by skipping school his memoirs recall We had to give up Berber and reject French. I said no! I played hooky in all my Arabic classes. Every class that I missed was an act of resistance, a slice of liberty conquered. My rejection was voluntary and purposeful. By 1975, he had abandoned formal education. He left for France in search of work.
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