Mohamed Cherif Sahli
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Mohamed Cherif Sahli 🇩🇿

محمد الشريف ساحلي (Known as "Sahli")
Historian, Diplomat, Anti-Colonial Intellectual, Author of Décoloniser l'histoire
Born Oct 06, 1906 🇩🇿 Souk El Tenine, Algeria
Passed Away Jul 25, 1989 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 82 years old
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"Decolonization is not merely the lowering of a foreign flag; it is the liberation of our historical mind."

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Influential Algerian historian, philosopher, and ambassador who pioneered the intellectual decolonization of North African history with his 1965 landmark work Décoloniser l'histoire.

Biographical Record

Educated in Algiers and Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, Mohamed Cherif Sahli was an early activist in the Étoile Nord-Africaine and PPA. In 1953, he published his seminal study *L'Émir Abdelkader: Mythe français et réalités algériennes*, rescuing the Emir from colonial paternalistic caricatures.

During the War of Liberation, he served as a diplomat for the GPRA in Scandinavia and Prague. His 1965 masterpiece *Décoloniser l'histoire* laid the methodological foundation for reclaiming African and third-world historical agency from European imperial archives.

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El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7212, 3.1678
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