A year ago, Béchir Ben Yahmed discreetly said goodbye.
With him, the pandemic took not only an atypical giant of the press, but also a precious book, his
Memoirs
, which went almost unnoticed because doctors then monopolized the spotlight.
It is urgent today to repair this injustice so much this man merges with history.
That of decolonization, of the emergence of a new world in the midst of the Cold War, of this young Africa in search of a destiny that Ben Yahmed, his newspapers and his journalists have told for decades.
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J'assume
is a title that sums up its author well, a man with a strong and whole character, capable of speaking up to the most powerful.
And God knows if
Jeune Afrique
had a lot to do with some of these heads of state who did not have freedom of expression as their best friend.
Never the one whose editorial…
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