Abdelkader Mam – Kamal Daoud…a guard wearing French military boots
In the title of his article in the French press, Kamal Daoud described the French language as immortal in Algeria, not only because it is a language, but because it is a collective imagination that inhabits Algerian society.
Perhaps French will remain in Algeria. But not as a bridge of love and affection, but rather as a scar, and as a long shadow of a memory of colonialism that has not yet been erased, and if it remains, it will remain in the collective unconscious, not in the free consciousness.
