 He would later write a song in tribute to the Berber Spring, "Ɣef Teqbaylit yuli was" (On Kabylia rises the day).He never denied his peasant roots and spent much of his earnings in buying a farm in Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne), where he spent six months a year cultivating his nostalgia in his fig and olive tree plantations.Slimane feared death in exile.