Ferhat Abbas
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- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Nationalism
- Curriculum: African History
Article abstract: Abbas was the first Premier of the Provisional Government of Algeria (1958-1961). Regarded as the “grand old man of Algerian politics,” he was an assimilationist in the 1930’s and nonviolent radical nationalist in the 1940’s whose so-called Manifesto of the Algerian People marked a turning point in the development of an Algerian national independence movement. Realizing that peaceful means would not bring an end to colonialism, Abbas became a revolutionary nationalist, joined the National Liberation Front in 1956, and quickly became its...
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