Cheikh Bouamama | |
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Born | 1841
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Died | October 7, 1908[3] [4] | (aged 66–67)
Known for | Leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh |
Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah ( Arabic: الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908. [5]
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]