Abstract

In a speech given at the first Algerian National Colloquium on Culture, M. Lacheraf, a Maghrebian historian and former Minister of National Education, addressed the question of minimal requirements for the development of a Maghrebian culture, asking the following question: "At what level already or yet to be reached, does a national culture cease to be mere entertainment and become as basic as the bread one eats and the air one breathes?"...

Keywords: Algerian National Colloquium, culture, Culture, M. Lacheraf, Maghrebian historian, Minister of National Education, Maghrebian culture, national culture

How to Cite:

Bensmaïa, R., (1999) “Nations of Writers”, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 23(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1460