Mobile Museums in Algeria Showcase Resistance against French Colonialism
Four buses have been equipped with posters, books, and multimedia devices to display scenes of the battle between the Algerian fighters to win their independence from France, TRT Arabic reported.
November 1 is the day when the National Liberal Front started the war against colonialists in 1954. The day is being marked every year in the African country by holding various events.
The mobile museum initiative was launched with the cooperation of the country’s public transport sector and its national museum on Sunday.
The museums provide the opportunity for the people to get acquainted with memories of the Algerian Revolution, said the public transportation department in a statement, adding that the mobile museums will continue to move across different areas of the capital Algiers till November 6.
Approximately 1.5 million Algerians were killed and millions more displaced in an eight-year struggle for independence that started in 1954.
In one of the massacres, nearly 4,000 worshipers were killed by the French during the 1830-1962 colonial era. The worshipers were killed as they staged a sit-in inside an Ottoman Mosque called Ketchaoua in an effort to stop it from being converted into a church.
Algeria represents the most recent and bloodiest example of France’s colonial history on the African continent.
Paris has never officially apologized to Algeria as a state for its colonial policies.
