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Niger Grants Kemi Seba Diplomatic Passport After France Revoked His Citizenship

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The Niger military government has granted Pan-Africanist and anti-imperialist activist Kemi Seba a diplomatic passport as a Special Advisor to the Nigerien Head of State, General Abdourahamane Tchiani.

The French-born Beninese activist was stripped of his French nationality by the French government last month over his strong criticism of the imperialist country. Seba is famous for criticising France and the Western colonial legacy in West Africa.

He founded an international Pan-African organisation, ‘Urgences Panafricanistes,’ which fights against neo-colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean.

In 2018, Seba set fire to CFA franc banknotes in Senegal to protest the use of the French colonial currency. He burnt his French passport shortly after he was stripped of his nationality.

Announcing his new citizenship on his Instagram page, Seba wrote: “In response to the procedure for termination of my citizenship committed by France against my person whose unconfirmed objective was to attempt to limit my movements, and thus curb the scope of my anti-colonialist actions), the revolutionary and visionary General Abdourahamane TIANI, Head of the Niger State, accompanied valuable members of the CNSP (who, since they took power a year ago now, have been leading a historical revolution in the Sahel), decided to grant me a diplomatic passport, given the fight I have been fighting for Africa for 25 years, at the risk of my life.

“This move, as I said, could never have been achieved without the expressed will of one of my major sources of political inspiration at the institutional level, in this case, General TIANI, Head of Niger State, General Modi, Minister of State/Minister of Defence, General Toumba, Minister of State /Minister of Defence. The Interior, Major Colonel Abdurahamane, Spokesperson of the CNSP, Colonel Sahabi, Permanent Secretary of the CNSP and all the other CNSP members that I did not mention. Not forgetting, lastly, my beloved brother Oumarou Abdurahamane, the man of pan-African networks in Niger, the central piece of the African revolution.”

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