INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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.
