Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Moulessehoul akaberekwa muna 1955 muKénadsa, muSahara yeAlgeria. Amai vake, vaibva kumadzinza aifamba-famba, vakanga vari "mukurukuri mukuru wenyaya" wedzinza ravo. Baba vake, pakutanga vaiva mukoti wechirume, vakabatana neuto reAlgeria reNational Liberation, sezvo Algeria yakatanga kurwira rusununguko
kubva kuFrance. Akava mukuru mukuru, akakuvadzwa muna 1958. Vabereki vakatumira vanakomana vavo vatatu, Mohammed ane makore mapfumbamwe uye gare gare vakoma vake vaviri vaduku, kuchikoro chevadzidzi veRevolution muEl Mechouar Palace, Tlemcen. Khadra anorondedzera kutanga kweshungu dzake dzokunyora mubhuku rake roupenyu rinonzi "The Writer", nenzira iyi akakwanisa kuchengeta rusununguko rwaakange asisina mudzimba dzevadzidzi. Pakutanga, aida kuva mudetembi mumutauro wechiArabic, asi akasangana napurofesa wechiFrench.