A herald of Françafrique, Robert Bourgi discusses, for the very first time in a ebook, his life, his relationship along with his mentor Jacques Foccart and the delicate missions he carried out over forty years on behalf of French-speaking African presidents and French politicians, together with right-wing leaders: from Jacques Chirac to Nicolas Sarkozy, by way of Dominique de Villepin, Claude Guéant and François Fillon, in addition to Omar Bongo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Abdoulaye Wade, Laurent Gbagbo, Mobutu Sese Seko and Blaise Compaoré.
With a wealth of element, he reveals a wealth of beforehand unpublished data. The modus operandi for transporting hundreds of thousands in money to the RPR and UMP from 1981 to 2007. The go to of Malian marabouts to Jacques Chirac on the eve of the 2005 presidential election. The “cleansing” of Jacques Foccart’s residence and his well-known “Charlotte” villa in Luzarches just a few days after his loss of life in March 1997. The financing of Laurent Gbagbo for candidate Chirac in 2002. The acquisition by Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaoré of objets d’artwork for Dominique de Villepin, and the appointment of French ambassadors to Africa and a director of the French Improvement Company are only a few examples.
With its many images and appendices, this documentary ebook is a novel and uncommon testimony to Franco-African relations.
Robert Bourgi, born in Dakar in 1945, is a Franco-Lebanese lawyer, lobbyist and political advisor. With a doctorate in public legislation, this former instructor was answerable for relations with Africa at Membership 89, an influential RPR assume tank, earlier than turning into the primary cog within the switch of funds from a number of African palaces and Lebanese communities in Africa to the political formations of the Gaullist proper.
Frédéric Lejeal, a political scientist by coaching, has been a journalist specializing in Africa for twenty-five years. For ten years, he directed La Lettre du Continent, a confidential publication on politics and enterprise networks in West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea. His newest ebook, Le déclin franco-africain, was revealed in 2022 by L’Harmattan.
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