In Our Time: The Mokrani Revolt

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolt that broke out in 1871 in Algeria against French rule, spreading over hundreds of miles and countless towns and villages. In the wake of its swift suppression though came further waves of French migrants to settle on newly confiscated lands, themselves displaced by French defeat in Europe and the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. The Mokrani Revolt became seen as a watershed between earlier Ottoman rule and full national identity, an inspiration to nationalists in the 1950s