Presented in the form of precise f lashs and lively condensed exposés, listed in "key-issues", around 500 key words with the virtue of passwords, the present work covers the essentials of the situation in Algeria. Its aim is to helpunderstand and provide the reader with the ingredients for an Ariadne's web of a dense reality in all its breadth, both in space and in time. While the data and figures are a constant reference point, its contribution could becometo decipher a social relationship undergoing rapid economic and cultural transformation. Its facets and ramifications form the fabric of a matrix of underdevelopment that is struggling to discover and adapt new mechanisms vital to Algerian society, where human enhancement is the nodal point.