Cheikh Bouamama
Algerian leader (1841-1908)
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Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah Al Bousheikhi Al Bakri (Arabic: الشيخ بوعمامة, romanized: Shaykh Bū ʿAmāma) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[5]
KnownforLeader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh
Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.[6] The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[6][7]
The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama").[8]
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