{"id":34402,"date":"2024-10-04T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/10\/04\/hero-or-dictator-ahmed-sekou-toure-and-the-war-of-memory-in-guinea\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T13:02:34","slug":"hero-or-dictator-ahmed-sekou-toure-and-the-war-of-memory-in-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2024\/10\/04\/hero-or-dictator-ahmed-sekou-toure-and-the-war-of-memory-in-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero or dictator? Ahmed S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9 and the war of memory in Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Forty years after his death, Ahmed S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9, the father of Guinea&rsquo;s independence, is more popular than ever. For young people across West Africa in search of a hero, S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9 could be what they&rsquo;re looking for.\u00a0But this rehabilitation of the country&rsquo;s past dictator glosses over the tens of thousands of deaths attributed to his regime, with access to the notorious Camp Boiro concentration camp now closed to victims&rsquo; families.\u00a0Our correspondent Sarah Sakho reports.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty years after his death, Ahmed S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9, the father of Guinea&rsquo;s independence, is more popular than ever. For young people across West Africa in search of a hero, S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9 could be what they&rsquo;re looking for.\u00a0But this rehabilitation of the country&rsquo;s past dictator glosses over the tens of thousands of deaths attributed to his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-34402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}