Feb 2, 2021 · All Algerians need to be educated about slavery and anti-black racism in both schools and through consciousness raising by the government and civil society. A campaign to combat the banalization of racist language is urgently needed.

Black Algerians, indigenous to southern Algeria, account for an estimated 10 per cent of the country’s total population as per a 2009 academic estimate. However, no official statistics exist. These Algerian citizens face deeply structural racial discrimination, which is reinforced by the state’s institutionalisation of a ‘white Arab and ...

Feb 2, 2021 · Patterns of slave utilization in Algeria differed between the Mediterranean coast and the Algerian Sahara. In the northern regions of pre-colonial Algeria, black slaves were mainly exploited for domestic work and as concubines. In the …

Ethnic groups in Algeria include Arabs and Berbers, who represent 99% of the population, of which 75–85% are Arab and about 15–25% are Berber. Algeria also has a minority population of Europeans that represents less than 1% of the population. [1] The minority European population is predominantly of French, Spanish, and Italian descent. [2]

Dec 24, 2018 · Sub-Saharan migrants tell stories of horror, activists note that forced deportation from Algeria is an ongoing trend. Data collected by Amnesty International show a sharp increase in collective...

Black Algerians suffer from endemic day-to-day racism, which includes stigmatisation when claiming national identity in northern Algeria at police roadblocks or airports, as well as racial slurs, such as kahlouche (‘blackie’) and abd (‘slave’). Black Algerian women appear to be particularly vulnerable to such acts of racial ...

Black people are indigenous to southern Algeria. Since at least the neolithique era, two types of populations have peopled Algeria: one with Mediterranean characteristics and the other with “negroid traits”.20 Thus, Black people, who were present in southern Algeria even before the 13- century-long trans-Saharan slave

Jun 28, 2023 · A black Algerian influencer and artist was reportedly subjected to racial discrimination on a public tram in Algiers after being mistaken for a sub-Saharan migrant. Her story triggered a nationwide conversation about the …

May 2, 2016 · In their anti-Western discourse, Algeria’s bien-pensants think they protect black people by denouncing the prevailing racism.

Jul 20, 2020 · Black citizens in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, as well as migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who come to work, study or try to reach Europe, say they suffer endemic day-to-day racism.