French colonial policy deliberately divided Kabyle against Arab populations

Evidence

In the past, the Kabyle and the Arab had little love for each other, and — in the best colonial tradition — it was often the policy of French administrators to set one off against the other. More orthodox in religion than the Kabyles, the Arabs were at the same time perhaps more supple in their mental processes, and shrewder businessmen. As townsmen and lowlanders they had had the most contact with French culture, and had also suffered, directly, the most in that it was largely their patrimonial lands that had come within the grasp of the colons. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 150

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s interest in how colonial subjects were managed and divided across Africa; echoes standard divide-and-rule doctrine. — connects to: Si Chérif’s Arab-Kabyle feud defected a whole katiba to the French; Colonial divide-and-rule pitted Kabyles against Arabs in Algeria; Arab-Kabyle rivalry forced collective revolutionary leadership from the start (+7 more)

Related

• Colonial divide-and-rule pitted Kabyles against Arabs in Algeria (similarity 0.92)
• The Arab-Kabyle split was the F.L.N.’s chief nightmare exploited by the French. (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. feared a sectarian Arab-Kabyle split exploit by the French. (similarity 0.86)
• Si Chérif’s Arab-Kabyle feud defected a whole katiba to the French (similarity 0.85)
• Arab-Kabyle rivalry forced collective revolutionary leadership from the start (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial Algeria contained three distinct peoples speaking different languages (similarity 0.81)
• Kabyle women’s non-veiling became a colonial propaganda tool to divide Arabs and Berbers (similarity 0.81)
• French laws granted Jews citizenship while imposing alien judicial structures on Kabyles (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.80)
• French colonial administration was concentrated in Algiers while vast regions were under-administered (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism deliberately fostered division between Algerian Jews and Moslems #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 517
• French colonial justice policy tried to stop Islam’s spread by grouping Africans by ethnicity #exemplifies (0.55)