Akli Yahiatene
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Akli Yahiatene 🇩🇿

أكلي يحيى تن (Known as "Akli Yahiatene")
Legendary Singer of Exile and Homeland, Composer of 'Yal Menfi', FLN Militant
Born Feb 17, 1933 🇩🇿 Aït Mendes (Bogzni, Tizi Ouzou), Algeria
Passed Away Jan 20, 2023 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 89 years old
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"Tell my mother not to weep, for her exiled son carries Algeria in his heart."

Archival Overview

Legendary singer of Algerian folk and Chaabi, imprisoned multiple times by French authorities during the revolution, famous for the universal exile anthem 'Yal Menfi'.

Biographical Record

Akli Yahiatene was born in Boghni in Greater Kabylia. Emigrating to France as a young man, he worked as a laborer in Paris while actively collecting funds and transporting secret documents for the French Federation of the FLN during the War of Independence.

Arrested and imprisoned several times in French jails, he composed the immortal masterpiece 'Yal Menfi' (The Exile)—a song originally honoring 19th-century Algerian freedom fighters deported to New Caledonia that became a global anthem of diaspora longing. Over seven decades, his melodic genius touched generations of Algerians.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7267, 3.1611
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