Vomena Oct 12, 2018
French President Emanuel Macron recently broke a …
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa · VOMENA Team at KPFA
October 12, 201859m 24s
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Show Notes
French President Emanuel Macron recently broke a long held taboo by recognizing the culpability of the French government in the kidnapping and murder of anti-colonial activist Maurice Audin in 1957 in Algiers.
We look into the possible motivations behind this bold and historic act by the French president with UC Santa Cruz’ history Professor Muriem Haleh Davis, whose research focuses on the French colonial empire and the post-colonial world in the Middle East and North Africa.