دراسات إنسانية واجتماعية
Volume 14, Numéro 2, Pages 1013-1022
2025-06-16

The Language War In Colonized Algeria: A Postcolonial Perspective حرب اللغة في الجزائرالمُستعمَرة: منظور ما بعد الاستعمار

Authors : Kada Wafa .

Abstract

When France occupied Algeria, the latter was a mirror through which France saw a reflection of its many ambitions to reach power. To achieve this purpose, France adopted a policy of psychological warfare, surrounded itself with an aura of grandeur and claimed to shoulder the burden of backward countries towards development. Under the guise of la mission civilisatrice, France convinced Algeria of its backwardness and the necessity to keep up with civilization, thus waging a cultural war against it with the aim to eliminate its language and erase the features of its identity. This study aims to shed light on the French educational policy in Algeria and how it worked to create an individual who would be loyal to France.

Keywords

Algeria ; La mission Civilisatrice ; France ; Language ; educational policy