The Kingdom of Kuku was a Kabyle kingdom founded in 1510 which ruled over much of greater Kabylia.
Lounès Matoub (in Kabyle: Lwennas Maṭub, in Tifinagh: ⵍⵡⴻⵏⵏⴰⵙ ⵎⴰⵟⵓⴱ, Algerian Arabic: مطوب لوناس) (January 24, 1956 – June 25, 1998) was a famous Berber Kabyle singer,poet,thinker and mondol player who was a prominent advocate of the Berber cause, human rights and secularism in Algeria throughout his life.
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but they are concentrated in the larger cities and in Kabylie (Matoub Lounes or Ferhat Mehenni to name few are popular singers among Kabyle youth).
He was born from a kabyle parents on the 30 January 1961, in Bouzaréah at the suburbs of Algiers where he grew up.
M'hamed Issiakhem (1928–1985) (in Kabyle:Muḥand Isyaxem) is one of the founders of the modern Algerian painting.
Most of French speakers are in fact Kabyles, where Arabs are less (even if many of them use a mixture of French and Arabic in daily conversation, which is not the case for Kabyle speakers).
Nadir Benoufella (in kabyle: Nadir Bennufella) (born April 3, 1987 in Algeria) is an Algerian football player who is currently playing as a goalkeeper for JS Kabylie in the Algerian league.
On October 4, 2002 in Vitry-sur-Seine, South of Paris, 17 year old Sohane Benziane, the daughter of Kabyle immigrants, was burned alive in front of her friends in a cellar by her former boyfriend, a local caid (gang leader).