Niggers in Algiers: An Experience of Blackness in Algeria

“Why write this book? No one has asked me for it. Especially those to whom it is directed. Well? Well, I reply quite calmly that there are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”
Black Skins, White Masks — Frantz Fanon

It is night time as the bus speeds through the Maghrebi countryside on its way to Algiers. I prefer taking the late bus and arriving at the crack of dawn. That way, my weekend is not consumed by the eight hour trip between Tlemcen and the capital…