Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah (Arabic: الشيخ بوعمامة) led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.

[5] Cheikh Bouamama was a leader of the tribe Awlad Sidi Shaykh.

[6] The resistance that he led in the southwest of Algeria from 1881 to 1908.

[6][7] The Algerian filmmaker Benamar Bakhti made the 1983 film L'Épopée de Cheikh Bouamama ("The Epic of Cheikh Bouamama").

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