379. Algerian Revolution: Black Panthers, LSD, & Nina Simone (Ep 5)
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Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me. William Durymple. And we have a cracker of an episode. Now I have enjoyed so much the reading and research for this whole series. But nothing surprised me more than the uh story of what happens in Algeria after independence uh arrives. So we pick up the story. In nineteen sixty two. as the newly liberated Algeria.
transforms into the rather surprisingly glamorous revolutionary capital of the third world. And we ask What happens? After A bloody revolution. Is one. Now we sort of teased you about this in in the previous episode. This will be a star studied episode of the podcast. But but let's take you back to this day, which is very important. It's July the fifth, nineteen sixty two. An enormous
Crowds have gathered in Algiers, people who have waited eight long years, who have survived some dreadful conditions, bombing torture, forced relocation, Basically they've lost everything. And now You've got hundreds of them in the streets. Actually thousand hundreds of thousands of them in the streets, I should say. You know, just as it looks like.
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