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We are not entirely sure about the Algerian colonial schools. As best we can tell, there seems to have been a segregated system with separate schools for the French and Algerian children, We are not sure about how they were separated. It may have been by choice and French language proficency. We believe both were tauhght in French. Some privlidged Algerians close to the colonial administration may have been allowed to attend the French schools. A small but influential French-speaking Algerian elite developed. Many were Berbers from Kabyles. The Kabyle people are a Berber ethnic group native to Kabylie in northern Algeria, a hundred miles east of Algiers. They are the largest Berber-speaking population in Algeria. French colonial policy as was common in all European colonies was 'divide to reign'. French administrators favored the Kabyles. 【Agero】 As a result some 80 percent of the schools for the indigenous population were built for Kabyles. The French stopped segregated the schools in Algeria after World War II (1949). In some cases, you can even see local and French children in the same class. A reader tells us," In some cases, you can see local and French children in the same class." This may be during the post World War II era.
Ageron, Charles-Robert. "La France a-t-elle eu une politique kabyle?" Revue historique tome 223, fasc. 2 (Avril 1960), pp. 311-52.
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