There is the official version of the Algerian war. That is to say truncated, both on the French side and on the Algerian side. And then there is the version experienced from the inside by one of the founders of the Algerian Communist Party, a doctor, researcher and militant with a degree of abnegation that leaves one wondering.
Sadek Hadjeres, 86 years old at the time of this meeting in 2015, will have lived the 20th century in the 1st rank of commitment, but always hiding himself. As the Algerian press headlined when volume 1 of his Memoirs came out, “Sadek Hadjeres is a survivor of the dark”, referring to his 30 years of clandestine life, in the name of an Ideal that remained flamboyant until his last breath: that of democracy in Algeria, but also (when we had tea with him) the consideration of Amazighity as a component of Algerianness. With a very quiet voice, he has just left this earth last November. We are left with his boundless commitment hailed by Algerian President Abelmadjid Tebboune, his Memoirs When a nation awakens 1928-1949, at Ed. Inas, 1949, Berber crisis or democratic crisisto Ed. Frantz Fanon and this interview he gave us in G Major in 2015…
Rebroadcast on 03/02/2015.
The musical choices of Sadek Hadjeres
Dahmane El Harrachi Ya raya
Louisa Tounsia Ya Warda
Asmahan Ya min yeqhol Ahwa