Berber Spring
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The Berber Spring (in Kabyle, Tafsut Imazighen or simply Tafsut) was a period of political mobilization, cultural and labor and street agitation, and criminalization of political activity in Kabylie. It is traditionally dated beginning on March 10, 1980 with the banning of a speech by intellectual Mouloud Mammeri at Hasnaoua University in Tizi-Ouzou. A critical point was the coordinated arrest of hundreds of Berber activists, students and doctors on April 20, sparking a general strike.
