On 5 July 2022, France and Algeria commemorated the sixtieth anniversary of Algeria’s accession to independence. Algeria had suffered through eight years of a terribly bloody war, after which upheavals continued, both after ceasefire agreements were signed on 19 March 1962, and after its proclamation of independence.
Sixty years: a very short time in human history, just two generations—which explains the ever-present question of…
