Kémi Séba celebrates having been “freed from this burden” and that this is a “recognition” of his work against “Franciafrica”
10 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The French government announced on Tuesday that it would revoke the nationality of pan-African and anti-colonial activist Kémi Séba after the French Interior Ministry began the necessary procedures in February after criticising his “continuous and firm” “anti-French” positions.
The decision was published in a decree in the country’s official information body, Légifrance, which simply states that Séba, whose real name is Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi and born in Strasbourg on December 9, 1981, has lost his French nationality.
The activist, who also has Beninese nationality, thanked God for being freed from this burden, and recalled that he burned his French passport after the authorities began the process of withdrawing it.
“No more French nationality? Thank God. I am freed from this burden. I left France almost 14 years ago because of its neocolonial policy and its systemic negrophobia that I fight head-on from Africa. (…) They are withdrawing my nationality because I criticise its neocolonialism and therefore it is, dear French authorities, a recognition (not very strategic) on their part, of the effectiveness of my political work against you, the supporters of this Francafrica,” he wrote on his social network X account.
He also said that he had prepared a request to renounce his nationality in case the Council of State rejected the request from the ministerial portfolio.
Séba settled in Senegal in 2011 after leaving France and finally moved to Benin in 2017. Paris considers him a foreign agent and has even accused him of being an “anti-Semite”, as in 2006 they dissolved his organisation ‘Tribe Ka’ for allegedly carrying out intimidation operations against Jews in Paris.
He was also sentenced to six months in prison in 2008 for comments he made regarding the World Bank’s actions in Africa, an organisation he accused of “suffocating African peoples” and went so far as to say that Auschwitz “could be considered a paradise” in comparison.
It should be noted that an investigation published in March 2023 by the magazine Jeune Afrique revealed that Séba had received more than 400,000 dollars (around 370,000 euros) from the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner Group, which operates in numerous countries on the continent at a time when the Kremlin is gaining a certain influence to the detriment of the Elysée.
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