{"id":529044,"date":"2025-05-15T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=529044"},"modified":"2025-05-15T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T20:07:21","slug":"francafrique-kemi-seba-firmly-rejects-support-from-robert-bourgi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/francafrique-kemi-seba-firmly-rejects-support-from-robert-bourgi\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran\u00e7Afrique: Kemi Seba firmly rejects support from Robert Bourgi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recently circulated clip from the YouTube show <em>Les fun\u00e9railles des Tabous<\/em>, shared by activist Kemi Seba on social media platform X, Robert Bourgi\u2014once a key figure of the Fran\u00e7Afrique network\u2014expressed willingness to support Seba. The response from the pan-Africanist leader was unequivocal: a clear and resounding no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the broadcast, Bourgi, a Franco-Lebanese lawyer and former adviser to several African and French presidents, was asked whether he would consider supporting contemporary pan-African leaders, particularly Kemi Seba. \u201cYes, why not,\u201d he answered, surprising the hosts. He went on to say he was familiar with Seba and encouraged African youth to \u201ctake your destiny into your own hands and believe in yourselves\u2014you have the means to earn respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Kemi Seba, now a naturalized citizen of Niger and a prominent voice of radical pan-Africanism, wasted no time in responding. In a caption to the video he reposted, he wrote: <em>\u201cRobert Bourgi, ex-pillar of Fran\u00e7Afrique, regrets his past actions and says he&#8217;s ready to support Kemi Seba\u2026 No thanks, I\u2019ll pass.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This firm refusal underscores Seba\u2019s consistent stance: a rejection of any association with figures he views as architects or beneficiaries of neocolonial influence in Africa. For him, aligning with someone so closely tied to the old guard of Fran\u00e7Afrique would undermine the integrity and clarity of his political and ideological struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recently circulated clip from the YouTube show Les fun\u00e9railles des Tabous, shared by activist Kemi Seba on social media platform X, Robert Bourgi\u2014once a key figure of the Fran\u00e7Afrique network\u2014expressed willingness to support Seba. The response from the pan-Africanist leader was unequivocal: a clear and resounding no. During the broadcast, Bourgi, a Franco-Lebanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":529045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"pays":[114],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-529044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policy-news-benews","8":"pays-world"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529070,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529044\/revisions\/529070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529044"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=529044"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=529044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}