Daily Archives: July 15th, 2014
1970S ALGERIAN FOLK AND POP.
1970S ALGERIAN FOLK AND POP. During the late-sixties and seventies, life in Algeria wasn’t easy. It hadn’t been since 1963, when Ahmed Ben Bella came to power following the Sand War. Two years later, he was overthrown by President Houari Boumediene. He continued the program of industrialisation. Since 1963, industries were state-controlled, within the authoritarian, socialist …