Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika awarded Sunday evening Algerian singer Warda El-Djazaira with a medal - national order of merit - in the course of a ceremony held for the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the November 1st 1954 Revolution.
After the “November, a Journey toward Dignity” show, organized at the dome of Mohamed Boudiaf sports complex, the President, accompanied by former President of the Republic, Ahmed Benbella, awarded the national order of merit and a medal devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Revolution to Warda, APS reported.
Warda was born near Paris in July 1940. Her father, one of the first Algerian immigrants to France, ran a hostel for migrant workers at Boulogne-Billancourt. In 1936 this hostel was already one of the main meeting places of the "North African Star", the first nationalistic organization to fight for the independence of the Maghreb.
Later Warda's father was the owner of the Tam-Tam, a cabaret in the Quartier Latin, with Warda starring. This very cabaret was going to be the seat of the FLN (Algerian Freedom Fighters) up to 1958, when it was closed down and the entire family left France.
Though she was only fourteen in 1954, when the Algerian War of Independence began, she would sing patriotic songs.
A few months after Algeria had got its independence, she arrived in her country, a country where she had never been before. (Albawaba.com)
