Djamila Bouhired - Personal Life

Personal Life

Djamila Bouhired and Jacques Vergès eventually married and would work together on Révolution africaine, an Algerian magazine written in French focusing on African nationalist revolutions. They would have two children, Meriem Vergès and Liess Vergès, who Djamila Bouhired would raise as a single mother following the departure of her husband. For some time she would run a perfume company in Algiers by the name of Malcolm.

Read more about this topic:  Djamila Bouhired

Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:

    “The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one’s personal integrity.”
    —Milovan Djilas (b. 1911)

    “By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)