This project zeroes-in on decolonization as long process and narrative across French North Africa. Through a focus on a marginalized group of the fallega, it aims to transnationalize a historiography that has overwhelmingly been methodologically national, when not nationalist. Parts military/political, parts social history; mixing oral and archival, micro and macro methods, its envisioned intervention contributes to the global histories of: decolonization; 2nd French empire; the Maghreb