{"id":1623,"date":"2012-04-20T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T08:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2012\/04\/20\/jean-baptiste-placca-52\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T23:44:08","slug":"jean-baptiste-placca-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/jean-baptiste-placca-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Bella\u00a0: Un panafricaniste comme il ne s\u2019en cr\u00e9e plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span lang=\"FR\" style=\"font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Chronique de Jean-Baptiste Placca <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ahmed Ben Bella, 95 ans, dont seulement trois comme chef d\u2019Etat, mais alors, quelle empreinte ! Sur son pays, mais aussi sur l\u2019Afrique, m\u00eame si la plupart des Africains semblent tout ignorer, aujourd\u2019hui, de ce que le continent doit \u00e0 l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie de Ben Bella. Un an \u00e0 peine apr\u00e8s l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance de l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie, alors que vient d\u2019\u00eatre adopt\u00e9e, \u00e0 Addis-Abeba, la Charte de l\u2019unit\u00e9 africaine, Ben Bella, \u00e0 la tribune, lance le cri de ralliement pour la lib\u00e9ration totale du continent : \u00ab Cette Charte, dit-il ce 25 mai 1963, restera lettres mortes, si nous ne prenons pas les d\u00e9cisions qu\u2019il faut, pour que nos fr\u00e8res, en Angola, en Afrique du Sud, au Mozambique, re\u00e7oivent, tout de suite, l\u2019appui inconditionnel qu\u2019ils sont en droit d\u2019attendre de nous \u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Et Ben Bella d\u2019encha\u00eener avec deux de ces phrases que l\u2019Histoire retient au moment m\u00eame o\u00f9 elles sont prononc\u00e9es\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est parce que nos fr\u00e8res guin\u00e9ens, maliens, ghan\u00e9ens, nig\u00e9riens et autres, en Afrique, ont accept\u00e9 de mourir un peu, que l\u2019Alg\u00e9rie a pu conqu\u00e9rir son ind\u00e9pendance. Eh\u00a0! bien, s\u2019il le faut, acceptons tous de mourir un peu, ou m\u00eame de mourir tout \u00e0 fait, pour que l\u2019unit\u00e9 africaine ne soit pas un mot creux\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alger, capitale de l\u2019Afrique progressiste<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alger devient alors la capitale de l\u2019Afrique progressiste. Agostinho Neto, Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Machel, Joshua Nkomo, Nelson Mandela et tant d\u2019autres leaders de mouvements de lib\u00e9ration ont guichet ouvert \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence de la jeune R\u00e9publique. \u00ab\u00a0Je donnais de l\u2019argent, beaucoup d\u2019argent. Je donnais chaque fois qu\u2019il en fallait, chaque fois que l\u2019on m\u2019en demandait. Et pour moi, c\u2019\u00e9tait presque un devoir religieux. Sacr\u00e9\u00a0!\u00a0\u00bb, se rem\u00e9morait Ben Bella quelques mois avant sa mort en feuilletant l\u2019album de l\u2019Histoire, avec Herv\u00e9 Bourges, son conseiller, de 1962 \u00e0 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cet instant unique s\u2019inscrit dans un film de la collection documentaire \u00ab\u00a0Empreintes\u00a0\u00bb, que France\u00a05 diffusera les 4 et 6\u00a0mai prochains. Les braises et la lumi\u00e8re \u00a0\u2013\u00a0c\u2019est le titre du film\u00a0\u2013 explore, avec un certain succ\u00e8s, la vie, riche et foisonnante, d\u2019Herv\u00e9 Bourges. L\u2019Afrique, continent sur lequel il a laiss\u00e9 plus que des empreintes, y trouve la place qui se doit. Au d\u00e9tour d\u2019un \u00e9change, les deux hommes ouvrent un chantier que les historiens africains devraient songer \u00e0 explorer\u00a0: il s\u2019agit de l\u2019incidence de la guerre d\u2019Alg\u00e9rie sur la d\u00e9cision (du G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Gaulle) d\u2019octroyer l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance \u00e0 presque toutes ses colonies d\u2019Afrique, y compris celles qui n\u2019en demandaient pas tant\u00a0!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Jean-Baptiste Placca<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">MFI<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><em>* Published in print edition on 20 April 2012<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronique de Jean-Baptiste Placca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":6560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[19757,19758,18296,19759,19238,5061,2216,19756,19760],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-affairs","tag-addis-abeba","tag-agostinho-neto","tag-ben-bella","tag-eduardo-mondlane","tag-jean-baptiste-placca","tag-joshua-nkomo","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-panafricaniste","tag-samora-machel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MT-Logokk.jpg?fit=1200%2C880&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-qb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}