On March 26, 1984, Guinean President Ahmed Sékou Touré died in a hospital in Cleveland, U.S. Forty years later, the debate surrounding his memory still tears apart the families of his victims and heirs of his ideas.
The complexity of this major and controversial character in African history cannot be easily grasped. Poems, buried in the shock of memories surrounding him, provide fascinating clues about the person of the first president of Guinea, writes Laurent Correau. The decision of the transitional authorities to ignite contemporary imaginations with the name of the airport where he died has awakened old wounds, he says.