Lala fatma nsoumer biography of barack

Algerian anti-colonial leader

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer (c. 1830 – 1863) (Kabyle: Lalla Faḍma n Sumer; Arabic: لالة فاطمة نسومر) was an Algerian anti-colonial leader^[1] during 1849–1857 of the French conquest of Algeria and subsequent Pacification of Algeria.

She led several battles against the French forces, until her capture in July 1857. She was imprisoned until her death six years later. She is an Algerian national hero.

Image of Lalla Fatma N'Soumer.

Lalla Fadhma N'Soumer ()​​ Born into a family of religious marabouts in (during the fall of Algeria to French colonisation) in a.

The passing on of the visions naturally performed by Lalla Fadhma n'Soumer were in fact a continuation of the living cult of the martyr whereby.

Lalla Fadma N'Soumer (–), who waged battle against the French army in the Algerian region of Kabylia.

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer became synonymous with the Berber/Algerian Resistance movement against the French invasion.

Name

Lalla, the female equivalent of the Berber word mass, is an honorific reserved for women of high social rank or for holy women.^[2] "N'Soumer" means "of Soumer", where Soumer was the village nearest the zawiya of her lineage, the Sidahmed.

She sometimes bore the name "Lalla N'Ouerdja". Her birth name seems to have been "Fadhma Si Ahmed Ou Méziane", but she went by Fatma N'Soumer and eventually Lalla Fatma N'Soumer with time.^[3]

Biography

Fadhma Si Ahmed Ou Méziane was born around 1830