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Cheikh Bouamama
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Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah (Arabic: الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[5]
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Born | 1841[1][2] |
Died | October 7, 1908(1908-10-07) (aged 66–67)[3][4] |
Known for | Leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh |
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Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.[6] The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[6][7]
The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama").[8]