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In 1939, Albert Camus travelled to what was then French Algeria to witness the extreme poverty in the Kabyle mountains.
Over 11 days, the 25-year-old journalist wrote an article a day, backed with numbers and precise descriptions of the natives& hardship, caused by an exploitative and cruel colonial system.
The Kabyle people were not even allowed to collect wood and had to feed on roots.
Thousands died of hunger.