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What an horrifically ignorant post. Ben Bella spole Algerian Arabic. That was his mother tongue. He may not have been fluent in Fus7a (hint: its not widely used on common speech) but Arabic was not a foreign language to him. Also it is a bold faced lie that Nasser led an “Arabization” campaign against non-Arabs of North Africa. Colloquial Arabic was already the dominant language in the Maghreb when the French and Italians conquered it. Native Berber speakers were a minority. A significant minority but a minority all the same. The French carried out a systematic colonial project of de-Arabizing education in these lands and downgrading Arabic, while championing Berbers as representing French colonial anti Islamic ideals. Plain old divide and rule. When decolonization happened, Maghrebi Arab postcolonial elites wanted to revive the native Arabic language so they pursued Arabization policies to combat French colonial ones by reviving prestige use of the native mother tongue of the region. Yes it pushed Arabic majority over minority Berber languages and this has been challenged. But such is the case with postcolonial language policies across the global south. It is not ethnic language replacement. Even during French colonial times, the authorities refer to the natives as Arabs demonstrating that this was the dominant culture long before Nasser and Ben Bella. The majority of the Maghrebi people are native speakers of Arabic in the Maghrebi dialects and have been for centuries. This was done so organically through pre-modern language shift and efforts of local dynasties to promote the language (especially Berber dynasties). Not to mention historic migration of Arab tribes to North Africa who settled down and mixed with the locals. Arabic is an organic native language of Africa on account of being spoken here 1500 years. More Arabs in Africa than in Asia. Some black nationalists need to accept that.