Cheikh Bouamama
Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.
Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.
The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria and southeast of Morocco from 1881 to 1908 fell apart due to disagreements among the tribes.
When Cheikh Bouamama retreated to Morocco in 1882 the French conquest of the south of Algeria was complete.
The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama.
