Baya. From Algiers to Marseille, the story of a couple of activists

Non Lieu, Paris, May 2011, 211 pages - ISBN 978-2352701040

A moving biography of Baya Allaouchiche (1920-2007), an exemplary activist for the Algerian cause and human rights.

Born in Algiers, Baya refused the imposed marriage at a very early age and, thanks to her education, committed herself alongside progressive Europeans for the rights and dignity of Algerians.

The only indigenous woman member of the Central Committee of the Algerian Communist Party, she campaigned tirelessly for the rights of Algerian women and then for Independence.

Having become Secretary of the Union of Women of Algeria, she represented her country at international conferences, notably becoming the first Algerian woman to go to China in 1949.

Expelled from Algeria in 1956, she settled in Marseille where she continued the fight by organizing actions for an independent Algeria and supporting French activists committed against the war.

In the 1980s, she fought racism and the National Front through the MRAP. During the Algerian Civil War in the 1990s, she organized the reception of victims in Marseille.

Einaudi celebrates this courageous woman whose story bears witness to the struggles for freedom, here and there, and to feminist engagement in the anti-colonial struggle.