Colonial radio services altered programming schedules to respect Algerian family hierarchy

Evidence

It is with reference to this first rationalization that we must understand the habit formed by the official Radio Broadcasting Services in Algeria of announcing the programs that can be listened to in common and those in the course of which the traditional forms of sociability might be too severely strained. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 258

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Algerians explained radio refusal through family honor and moral taboo — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 257; Native non-adoption reinforced the impression of radio as a closed colonial world — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 267; Algerian society refused radio because it was modeled on Western family norms — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 259

Broader Connections