These riots are also known as the ‘Berber Spring’.
- Djaffar Chetouane (1968-, Algeria) – Donkey Heart, Monkey Mind (2011). Written in English, this novel tells the story of a young Amazigh living in Algeria in the 1980s and the hardships the Amazigh people are confronted with. He is brutally beaten by the police when he participates in protests, and decides to travel, posing with different identities to escape his faith, until he is arrested and imprisoned in a remote military prison following the ‘Black October’ Algerian political riots (also in M: Minorities: Amazigh)
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd bin Hadūqah (1925-, Algeria) – Ghadan Yawm Jadīd (1992) describes the popular uprisings and links the period preceding independence (the 1930’s) with the disruption and confusion of the later 1980’s (reference).
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- EAL, p. 149