Nostalgeek

Nostalgeek follows the adventures of Togui, a 37 year old Algerian; clumsy, goofy, an avid lover of cinema, TV series, comics, food, and rock music (Dire Straits in particular). The author takes us on a journey of adventures, anecdotes and memories from the 1980s to the present day, following in the footsteps of a young dreamer during what has been called the "black decade" in Algeria (1990-2000), those years during which the Algerian government established an authoritarian regime under the pretext of curbing the rise of radical Islam. The socio-political criticism that punctuates this juvenilization narrative is marked by much self-mockery and sprinkled with geek references that Togui is particularly fond of.