{"id":33241,"date":"2023-02-06T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihedn.fr\/?p=33241"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T14:23:20","slug":"pourquoi-lafrique-est-entree-dans-lhistoire-sans-nous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihedn.fr\/en\/les-debats-strategiques\/pourquoi-lafrique-est-entree-dans-lhistoire-sans-nous\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Africa make history (without us)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"33241\" class=\"elementor elementor-33241\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b6fa8dd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b6fa8dd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bd45ce2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bd45ce2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Africa is made up of 55 states with different economic and demographic growth rates, and is often described as a uniform continent, an area of poverty and conflict. Do these caricatural representations of Africa reflect what Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe calls a \"will to ignorance\"? In his book <em>Why did Africa make history (without us)?<\/em> Sonia le Gouriellec sets out to deconstruct this stereotypical and devaluing view of the African continent. With this title, the author refers to the Dakar speech given by Nicolas Sarkozy on 26 July 2007. In his speech, the French president said that \"the African man has not made enough history\".<\/p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sonia le Gouriellec is a lecturer in political science at the Catholic University of Lille and an associate researcher at the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS). She specialises in security and peace issues in Africa, particularly in the Horn of Africa. In 2020 she published a book on Djibouti's diplomacy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea72745 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ea72745\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12a6728 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"12a6728\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A replay of this strategic debate is available on our Youtube channel:<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c80a847 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"c80a847\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;youtube_url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=i4_bFdjP3RQ&amp;ab_channel=IHEDN&quot;,&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;youtube&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-video\"><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #c80a23;\"><strong>06 February 2023 - 6.30pm<\/strong><\/span> at the \u00c9cole militaire<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[247,249],"class_list":["post-33241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-les-debats-strategiques","tag-debat-strategique","tag-ancien-debat-strategique"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L&#039;IHEDN : Institut des hautes \u00e9tudes de d\u00e9fense nationale | Pourquoi l\u2019Afrique est entr\u00e9e dans l\u2019histoire (sans nous) ?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Compos\u00e9e de 55 \u00c9tats \u00e0 la croissance \u00e9conomique et d\u00e9mographique h\u00e9t\u00e9rog\u00e8ne, l\u2019Afrique est souvent d\u00e9crite comme un continent uniforme et un espace de pauvret\u00e9 et de conflits. Ces repr\u00e9sentations caricaturales de l\u2019Afrique rel\u00e8vent-elles de ce que le philosophe camerounais Achille Mbembe appelle une \u00ab volont\u00e9 d\u2019ignorance \u00bb ? Dans son ouvrage Pourquoi l\u2019Afrique est entr\u00e9e dans l\u2019histoire (sans nous) ? Sonia le Gouriellec s\u2019attache \u00e0 d\u00e9construire cette vision st\u00e9r\u00e9otyp\u00e9e et d\u00e9valorisante du continent africain. \u00c0 travers ce titre, l\u2019auteure fait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au discours de Dakar prononc\u00e9 par Nicolas Sarkozy le 26 juillet 2007. Le pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais affirmait \u00e0 cette occasion que \u00ab l&#039;homme africain n&#039;est pas assez entr\u00e9 dans l&#039;Histoire \u00bb. Ma\u00eetresse de conf\u00e9rences en science politique \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 catholique de Lille et chercheuse associ\u00e9e \u00e0 la Fondation pour la recherche strat\u00e9gique (FRS), Sonia le Gouriellec est sp\u00e9cialiste des questions de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de paix en Afrique et plus particuli\u00e8rement dans la Corne de l\u2019Afrique. Elle a notamment publi\u00e9 en 2020 un ouvrage portant sur la diplomatie de Djibouti. Rendez-vous le 06 f\u00e9vrier \u00e0 19h \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole militaire. 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Ces repr\u00e9sentations caricaturales de l\u2019Afrique rel\u00e8vent-elles de ce que le philosophe camerounais Achille Mbembe appelle une \u00ab volont\u00e9 d\u2019ignorance \u00bb ? Dans son ouvrage Pourquoi l\u2019Afrique est entr\u00e9e dans l\u2019histoire (sans nous) ? Sonia le Gouriellec s\u2019attache \u00e0 d\u00e9construire cette vision st\u00e9r\u00e9otyp\u00e9e et d\u00e9valorisante du continent africain. \u00c0 travers ce titre, l\u2019auteure fait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence au discours de Dakar prononc\u00e9 par Nicolas Sarkozy le 26 juillet 2007. Le pr\u00e9sident fran\u00e7ais affirmait \u00e0 cette occasion que \u00ab l&#039;homme africain n&#039;est pas assez entr\u00e9 dans l&#039;Histoire \u00bb. 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