Uncomprehended broadcasts still sustained Algerian peasants’ will to fight
Evidence
Along the same line should be mentioned the manner in which programs are listened to in Kabylia. In groups of scores and sometimes hundreds around a receiver, the peasants listen religiously to “the Voice of the Arabs.” Few understand the literary Arabic used in these broadcasts. But the faces assume a look of gravity and the features harden when the expression Istiqlal (Independence) resounds in the gourbi (shack). An Arab voice that hammers out the word Istiqlal four times in an hour suffices at that level of heightened consciousness to keep alive the faith in victory. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: News deprivation drove Algerian men to hysterical, suicidal public demonstrations of imagined victory; Before 1954 speaking Arabic was a daily act of national existence for Algerian militants; Uncomprehended Arabic broadcasts still sustained Algerian hope through the word Istiqlal (+2 more)
Related
- Uncomprehended Arabic broadcasts still sustained Algerian hope through the word Istiqlal (similarity 0.97)
- Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith (similarity 0.93)
- News deprivation drove Algerian men to hysterical, suicidal public demonstrations of imagined victory (similarity 0.88)
- Algerians collectively reconstructed and invented news from a jammed broadcast (similarity 0.86)
- Algerians treated deliberate radio static as the presence of the Revolution (similarity 0.85)
- Before 1954 speaking Arabic was a daily act of national existence for Algerian militants (similarity 0.83)
- Algerian society autonomously reappropriated the radio as a weapon of revolution (similarity 0.83)
- Fragmentary colonial-blocked news was reconstructed collectively by Algerian listeners. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Even incomprehensible broadcasts sustain Algerians’ revolutionary faith
#corroborates(0.95) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 340