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Kahina

7th century CE Berber (Imazighen) warrior-queen and seer who led her people against the Arab Invasion of North Africa

Algerian writer and singer Taos Amrouche became the first modern Algerian woman to publish a novel in 1947, the autobiographical Jacinthe noire. It is also one of the earliest novels published in French by a North African woman writer.