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Belkacem Radjef (1909-1989) was born in Fort-National (today Larbaâ Nath Irathen, Tizi Ouzou Province), Algeria and spent 32 years of his life in the fight to liberate Algeria from French colonialism.
He was one of the original "historical leaders" of the FLN's November 1, 1954 uprising against French colonialism.
During French colonialism, the French divided the country into three parts, directly ruling over Cochinchina (southern Vietnam) while establishing protectorates in Annam (central Vietnam) and Tonkin (northern Vietnam).
During World War II, he joined the Mufti to work with the German Luftwaffe, hoping that Hitler's defeat of France would lead to the liberation of Algeria and other French colonies.
He founded the nationalist Istiqlal party which was a driving force in the Moroccan struggle for independence from French colonial rule.
Lê Hằng Huân married Nguyễn Sơn, a well-respected Vietnamese general during the war against the French colonialism.
The Wassoulou Empire, sometimes referred to as the Mandinka Empire, was a short-lived (1878–1898) empire of West Africa built from the conquests of Dyula ruler Samori Touré and destroyed by the French colonial army.