[Afropop] In the tense summer of 1962, in a dimly lit bar on the outskirts of Oran, Algeria, revolution wore an unexpected face. Cheikha Rimitti stepped onto the stage, her shoulder deliberately bared in the style that had earned singers like her the scandalous title "women of the cold shoulder." The conservative audience shifted uneasily - not just because of her presence, but because of what that presence represented. In French colonial Algeria, where women were forbidden from public performance, the very
