{"id":22610,"date":"2026-01-14T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22610\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T10:07:20","slug":"bob-denard-et-les-coups-detat-en-afrique-anatomie-dun-mercenariat-en-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/22610\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Denard et les coups d\u2019\u00c9tat en Afrique : anatomie d\u2019un mercenariat en h\u00e9ritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019actualit\u00e9 d\u2019Africa Corps (ex-Wagner) et sa m\u00e9diatisation pourraient laisser croire que le mercenariat \u00e9tranger est un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne r\u00e9cent en Afrique. Dans The Conversation, Christophe Premat, ma\u00eetre de conf\u00e9rences en \u00e9tudes culturelles, sp\u00e9cialiste des th\u00e9ories postcoloniales et des relations France-Afrique, se penche sur l\u2019\u00e9volution post-coloniale du mercenariat \u00e0 travers la figure du mercenaire Bob Denard (de son vrai nom Gilbert Bourgeaud). Il montre ainsi que, \u00ab\u00a0bien avant le groupe russe Wagner, l\u2019Afrique a \u00e9t\u00e9 un terrain d\u2019intervention privil\u00e9gi\u00e9 pour des mercenaires europ\u00e9ens.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Au c\u0153ur des affrontements au Congo dans les ann\u00e9es 1960, puis aux Comores, Denard \u00ab\u00a0a donn\u00e9 corps aux logiques de la Fran\u00e7afrique [&#8230;] dans ces zones grises o\u00f9 se m\u00ealent autorit\u00e9 \u00e9tatique, diplomatie secr\u00e8te et interventions paramilitaires\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Christophe Premat s\u2019int\u00e9resse notamment au traitement audiovisuel du personnage\u00a0: alors que dans le film Mister Bob (2011) il est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme \u00ab\u00a0un officier de l\u2019ombre\u00a0\u00bb, les documentaires sur les Comores r\u00e9v\u00e8lent un mercenaire dont les interventions \u00ab\u00a0ont contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 militariser la vie politique, \u00e0 institutionnaliser une d\u00e9pendance \u00e0 des r\u00e9seaux ext\u00e9rieurs\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L\u2019actualit\u00e9 d\u2019Africa Corps (ex-Wagner) et sa m\u00e9diatisation pourraient laisser croire que le mercenariat \u00e9tranger est un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne r\u00e9cent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[64],"class_list":{"0":"post-22610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique","8":"tag-afrique"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}