Pan-Africanist activist Kemi Seba (center) during a press conference in Paris on June 26, 2020. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP
Two short lines in the Official newspaper of Tuesday, July 9. That was all it took to formalize the withdrawal of French nationality by decree, signed the day before, of the Pan-Africanist activist and fierce opponent of the French presence in Africa, Kemi Seba, convicted several times for violence, threats, anti-Semitism and incitement to racial hatred. He is mentioned there under his real name, Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi, born December 9, 1981 in Strasbourg.
“This decision is in line with the firmness line [du ministre de l’intérieur] Gérald Darmanin with regard to people who behave in a way that is contrary to the values of the Republic and hostile to the interests of France”explains Place Beauvau. According to a source close to the case, Kemi Seba “is very actively involved in public life in Benin and declares that he has political ambitions leading him to aspire to exercise the highest functions of the Beninese state”.
Furthermore, he leads “in a very vehement manner, an activity deliberately hostile to France, its actions and its interests in the world, more specifically in the countries of French-speaking Africa”. Anyway, Kemi Seba “thus repeatedly, assertively and constantly demonstrates a marked disloyalty towards France”further justifies this source.
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“No more French nationality? Glory to God. I am freed from this burden.”reacted Kemi Seba on the social network X. He had burned his French passport on March 16, during a public meeting in Fleury-Mérogis, which the Essonne prefecture had tried, in vain, to ban. “Removing my nationality because I criticize your neocolonialism is, dear French authorities, a recognition (VERY UNSTRATEGIC) (…) of the effectiveness of my political work once morest YOU OTHERS, the supporters of this Françafrique”the activist added in his Tuesday post.
