{"id":41770,"date":"2026-04-22T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Les-impostures-du-verbe-et-les-compromissions-de-l-ombre-41770\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:01:48","slug":"Les-impostures-du-verbe-et-les-compromissions-de-l-ombre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Les-impostures-du-verbe-et-les-compromissions-de-l-ombre\/","title":{"rendered":"Les impostures du verbe et les compromissions de l\u2019ombre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tel semble \u00eatre d\u00e9sormais le cas de Kemi Seba, figure autoproclam\u00e9e d\u2019un panafricanisme radical, dont l\u2019arrestation en Pretoria, le 13 avril, a pr\u00e9cipit\u00e9 l\u2019effondrement d\u2019une rh\u00e9torique patiemment \u00e9difi\u00e9e sur les tribunes de la d\u00e9nonciation.<\/p>\n<p>Le paradoxe, d\u2019embl\u00e9e, frappe l\u2019observateur attentif : cet ap\u00f4tre v\u00e9h\u00e9ment d\u2019une Afrique affranchie de toute tutelle occidentale est interpell\u00e9 dans un centre commercial du quartier r\u00e9sidentiel de Brooklyn, non point dans quelque bastion militant ou forum panafricain, mais dans un espace ordinaire de consommation mondialis\u00e9e. <\/p>\n<p>Plus troublant encore, sa pr\u00e9sence aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Fran\u00e7ois Van Der Merwe, porte-parole du groupuscule Bittereinders, nostalgique revendiqu\u00e9 de l\u2019ordre racial d\u2019antan, conf\u00e8re \u00e0 la sc\u00e8ne une dimension presque grotesque, tant elle heurte les fondements m\u00eames du discours qu\u2019il pr\u00e9tend incarner.<\/p>\n<p>Cette cohabitation improbable ne rel\u00e8ve pas du simple concours de circonstances. Elle \u00e9claire, au contraire, les zones d\u2019ombre d\u2019un activisme dont les contours id\u00e9ologiques apparaissent d\u00e9sormais fluctuants, sinon opportunistes. <\/p>\n<p>Comment concilier, en effet, la d\u00e9nonciation incessante de l\u2019imp\u00e9rialisme occidental avec la fr\u00e9quentation de milieux ouvertement r\u00e9actionnaires, h\u00e9ritiers d\u2019un syst\u00e8me que ce m\u00eame discours pr\u00e9tend combattre ? <\/p>\n<p>A cette contradiction manifeste s\u2019ajoute la divulgation de conversations mettant en lumi\u00e8re des influences ext\u00e9rieures, notamment russes, dans la structuration et la diffusion de certains r\u00e9cits panafricanistes contemporains. <\/p>\n<p>Le verbe de la souverainet\u00e9 se trouve ainsi irr\u00e9m\u00e9diablement entach\u00e9 par le soup\u00e7on d\u2019une instrumentalisation.<\/p>\n<p>{{La d\u00e9ch\u00e9ance des causes trahies et la morale des engagements}}<\/p>\n<p>La comparution, le 20 avril, devant la juridiction sud-africaine, de ce trio h\u00e9t\u00e9roclite, le militant, son fils et l\u2019id\u00e9ologue d\u2019extr\u00eame droite ne constitue pas seulement un \u00e9pisode judiciaire. Elle rev\u00eat une port\u00e9e symbolique : celle de la dislocation d\u2019un r\u00e9cit militant lorsque celui-ci cesse d\u2019\u00eatre port\u00e9 par une \u00e9thique de coh\u00e9rence et de probit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Car toute cause, si l\u00e9gitime soit-elle dans ses pr\u00e9misses, s\u2019expose \u00e0 la d\u00e9cr\u00e9dibilisation d\u00e8s lors qu\u2019elle devient l\u2019instrument de calculs inavou\u00e9s. Le combat pour la dignit\u00e9 des peuples africains, pour leur souverainet\u00e9 et leur \u00e9mancipation, ne saurait \u00eatre r\u00e9duit \u00e0 une simple posture discursive, encore moins \u00e0 une strat\u00e9gie de captation d\u2019influence ou de ressources. <\/p>\n<p>Il exige, au contraire, une rigueur morale et une constance intellectuelle que les faits r\u00e9cemment r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9s semblent cruellement d\u00e9mentir.<\/p>\n<p>En d\u00e9finitive, ce qui se donne \u00e0 voir dans cette affaire d\u00e9passe la figure individuelle pour interroger une d\u00e9rive plus large : celle des engagements d\u00e9voy\u00e9s, o\u00f9 l\u2019ardeur proclam\u00e9e masque des alliances contre-nature et des int\u00e9r\u00eats inavouables. <\/p>\n<p>Voil\u00e0, en derni\u00e8re analyse, ce qui advient lorsque l\u2019on pr\u00e9tend puiser indistinctement \u00e0 tous les r\u00e2teliers, lorsque l\u2019on travestit le noble id\u00e9al de lib\u00e9ration en entreprise mercantile : la parole se d\u00e9lite, la cr\u00e9dibilit\u00e9 s\u2019effondre, et la cause elle-m\u00eame, trahie, en sort durablement affaiblie.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-74152 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fr.igihe.com\/IMG\/png\/screenshot_876_.png\" alt=\"L\u2019arrestation de Kemi Seba \u00e0 Pretoria marque un tournant qui expose les contradictions profondes de son discours panafricaniste radical\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il est des trajectoires dont l\u2019\u00e9clat m\u00e9diatique dissimule mal les contradictions profondes, et dont la chute, lorsqu\u2019elle survient, r\u00e9v\u00e8le moins un accident qu\u2019un d\u00e9voilement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000074151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7542],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-de-vivre","tag-homenews","byline-tite-gatabazi"],"bylines":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"contributors":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"featured_image":{"id":4000074151,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_876_.png","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/png","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_876_.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_876_.png","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_876_.png","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_876_.png","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/screenshot_876_.png","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000074151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41770"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41770"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}