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Joseph Ki-Zerbo, pionnier de l\u2019histoire africaine<\/p>\n

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Joseph Ki-Zerbo est l\u2019auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de renom sur l\u2019Histoire de l\u2019Afrique. Son regard d\u00e9complex\u00e9 sur l\u2019histoire du continent, sa volont\u00e9 de \u00ab\u00a0maintenir la sympathie africaine et la rigueur scientifique\u00a0\u00bb , ont constitu\u00e9, dans l\u2019esprit du chercheur, un pr\u00e9alable indispensable \u00e0 l\u2019action politique en Afrique.<\/p>\n

Intellectuel engag\u00e9 pour l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance et le d\u00e9veloppement de l\u2019Afrique, Joseph Ki-Zerbo a r\u00e9volutionn\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9criture de l\u2019histoire en int\u00e9grant les sources arch\u00e9ologiques et la tradition orale. Il est une source intarissable d\u2019\u0153uvres remarquables par leur qualit\u00e9 comme par leur diversit\u00e9 ; un monstre de curiosit\u00e9 et d\u2019invention ; un sp\u00e9cialiste du pass\u00e9 et, en m\u00eame temps, un visionnaire passionn\u00e9, lucide et convaincant ; un militant aux engagements attest\u00e9s pendant plus d\u2019un demi-si\u00e8cle pour le panafricanisme, la d\u00e9mocratie et la justice sociale : on n\u2019en finirait pas de circonscrire la personnalit\u00e9, le profil et l\u2019apport de Joseph Ki-Zerbo.<\/p>\n

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Ki-Zerbo qui signifie \u00ab l\u2019\u00e9claireur \u00bb en sa langue maternelle, est n\u00e9 le 21 juin 1922. Il obtient son BAC en 1949 \u00e0 Bamako et int\u00e8gre la prestigieuse universit\u00e9 de la Sorbonne \u00e0 Paris. En 1956, il devient le premier africain agr\u00e9g\u00e9 d\u2019Histoire. Fortement influenc\u00e9 par Frantz Fanon, Ki-Zerbo milite \u00e9galement pour l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance des colonies dans la revue Tam-Tam.<\/p>\n

\"\" Apr\u00e8s avoir pris position en faveur des Vietnamiens pendant la guerre d\u2019Indochine, il y publie un article remarqu\u00e9 en 1954, \u00ab\u00a0On demande des nationalistes\u00a0\u00bb, un titre ne souffrant d\u2019aucune ambigu\u00eft\u00e9. Ki-Zerbo est alors fortement marqu\u00e9 par l\u2019homme qui conduit le Ghana \u00e0 l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance en 1957 : Kwam\u00e9 N\u2019Krumah. Inspir\u00e9 par ce dernier, il fonde en 1958 son propre parti politique, le Mouvement pour la Lib\u00e9ration nationale de l\u2019Afrique, puis soutient l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance de la Guin\u00e9e de S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9.<\/p>\n

La Haute-Volta obtient \u00e0 son tour l\u2019ind\u00e9pendance en ao\u00fbt 1960, mais subit le r\u00e9gime peu d\u00e9mocratique du pr\u00e9sident Maurice Yam\u00e9ogo. Ki-Zerbo devient alors un acteur de l\u2019opposition \u00e0 ce r\u00e9gime, qui tombe en 1966.<\/p>\n

Inqui\u00e9t\u00e9 par le r\u00e9gime sankariste en raison de sa d\u00e9fiance \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard de la R\u00e9volution (1983-1987), il s\u2019exile. De retour d\u2019exil en 1992, il poursuit sa lutte aux couleurs de la Convention nationale des Patriotes progressistes devenu en 1993 le Parti pour la D\u00e9mocratie et le Progr\u00e8s.<\/p>\n

Auteur des deux premi\u00e8res synth\u00e8ses \u2013une petite et une grosse- sur l\u2019histoire de l\u2019Afrique, il \u00e9tait \u00e9videmment appel\u00e9 \u00e0 diriger le premier volume de l\u2019Histoire G\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l\u2019Afrique consacr\u00e9 aux questions pol\u00e9miques les plus br\u00fblantes. Ki-Zerbo livre un message d\u2019esp\u00e9rance qui se fonde sur la conviction selon laquelle l\u2019avenir politique du continent africain repose sur sa capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 s\u2019unir. Ainsi, la dimension panafricaine de l\u2019\u0153uvre de Ki-Zerbo est \u00e9vidente ; elle se fonde sur la mise en lumi\u00e8re des liens culturels unissant l\u2019Afrique et qui auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 mis \u00e0 mal par l\u2019occupation europ\u00e9enne.
\nParvenu au soir de sa vie, Ki-Zerbo invitait encore ses prochains \u00e0 \u00e9laborer un \u00ab\u00a0projet d\u2019ensemble\u00a0\u00bb, r\u00e9pondant \u00e0 ces deux questions existentielles : \u00ab\u00a0qui sommes-nous\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0o\u00f9 voulons-nous aller ?<\/p>\n

Ki-Zerbo est mort le 4 d\u00e9cembre 2006.<\/p>\n

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