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Algeria's 1916 Famine: Colonial Wheat and Starvation

Algeria's 1916 Famine: Colonial Wheat and Starvation

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Long before the war of independence, Algeria endured a cataclysm that killed nearly a million people—the Great Famine of 1916-1917. Lucas and Luna explore how French colonial policy, wartime requisitions, and a plague of locusts converged to create a man-made disaster. They follow the story through the wheat fields of the Mitidja plain, the ration lines in Algiers, and the silent villages of the Kabylia mountains. Why did the colonial administration export grain to France while Algerians starved? What role did the Bureaux Arabes play in the distribution of relief? And how did the famine shape the rural exodus that transformed Algeria's demographics? This episode uncovers a tragedy that remains a raw wound in Algerian memory, drawing on recent scholarship by historians like Malika Rahal and Kamel Kateb. A story of extraction, indifference, and survival. #Algeria #GreatFamine #1916 #ColonialPolicy #Starvation #Mitidja #Kabylia #BureauxArabes #LocustPlague #WheatRequisition #WorldWarI #Algiers #MalikaRahal #KamelKateb #RuralExodus #Memory #FexingoHistory #History Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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