Cheikh Bouamama

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Cheikh Bouamama
Born1841[1][2]
DiedOctober 7, 1908(1908-10-07) (aged 66–67)[3][4]
Known forLeader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh

Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah Al Bousheikhi Al Bakri (Arabic: الشيخ بوعمامة, romanized: Shaykh Bū ʿAmāma) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.[5]

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]

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