He attended a primary school in his native village, then emigrated to Morocco to live in his uncle's house in Rabat.

Four years later he returned to Algiers and pursued his studies at Bugeaud College, before continuing his education at Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, intending to join the École Normale Supérieure.

In 1980, the prohibition of one of his conferences at Tizi Ouzou on kabyle poetry caused riots and what would be called the Berber Spring in Kabylie.

Mammeri died the evening of February 26, 1989, in a car accident, which took place near Ain-Defla on his return from a symposium in Oujda (Morocco).

[4] Every thing started with the dominos argument which exasperated Arezki and which Sliman, his young brother, had, once again, explained immediately: "This war is the salvation of the infortunate.