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Born in Relizane to an educated family, Boumendjel was educated at the Duveyrier college in Blida, where he met with other future figures of the Algerian revolution, such as Abane Ramdane, Benyoucef Benkhedda and Saad Dahlab.
His work mainly focuses on political themes, such as the Algerian revolution, the Arab–Israeli conflict and Nazi Germany.
It was originally published in France by Maspero as L'An V de la Révolution Algérienne (Year Five of the Algerian Revolution) It was translated into English in 1965 and published by Monthly Review under the title Studies In A Dying Colonialism, which was shortened to A Dying Colonialism when appearing as a mass-market paperback by Grove Press in 1967.