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Our approach is resolutely aimed at rehabilitating our father, grandfather and great-grandfather OIB. Unjustly accused of \u201cmadness\u201d by the French colonial administration, he was deported to Oubangui-Chari, far from his family and his people.
\nAnd for what result? He was excluded from their \u201cpolitical game\u201d and even from social life (prevented from working in French companies and administrations in the colony to earn a living and look after his family...). He described the French colonial administration's attitude towards him as impolitic and hostile.<\/p>\n
All he wanted was for a \u201cNew Dawn\u201d to dawn in Gabon in 1932.<\/p>\n
His message is alive and well and continues to vibrate within us, which is why :<\/p>\n
1) Continuation in the same direction as him is well underway, hence this first book \u201cOWANGA OU L'APPEL DE L'AURORE\u201d (OWANGA OR THE CALL OF AURORA), and others are in preparation, notably a \u201cRelecture de l'Acte du 1er juillet 1932 et l'Id\u00e9al de Lumi\u00e8re au Gabon\u201d (Rereading of the Act of July 1, 1932 and the Ideal of Light in Gabon).
\n2) A collaboration with CNRS researchers and IMAF (Institut des Mondes Africains) is underway for a digital exhibition focusing on the OIB affair, the theme of which is: L'ali\u00e9n\u00e9 d'Afrique entre enjeux de pouvoir et instrumentalisation du savoir m\u00e9dical.
\nWhich goes to show that OIB's singular trajectory continues to attract the interest of scholars interested in the subject of messianisms in Africa, and particularly in the equatorial zone.
\n3) New academic publications citing the OIB case have recently appeared, in Italian: \u201cFolli, mistici e ribelli. Diritto coloniale e alterazione mentale in Africa equatoriale francese. Silvia Falconieri\u201d, mentions \u2018Owanga ou l'Appel de l'Aurore\u2019.
\n4) Research work by Silvia Falconieri, Sandra Fancello: shedding light on the story of Beno\u00eet Ogoula Iquaqua, to give substance to forms of repression through the accusation of madness, and to the victims of this instrumentalization.
\n5) Restoration of its Library-Museum: the idea is gaining ground.
\n6) Reclaiming and rebuilding the village of Owanga.
\n7) Produce an English version: \u201cOwanga ou l'Appel de l'Aurore\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Post\u00e9rit\u00e9 de son \u0153uvre ? Le message \u00ab d\u2019amour et de lumi\u00e8re \u00bb de OIB est encore vivant et donc invincible. Notre d\u00e9marche est r\u00e9solument tourn\u00e9e vers la r\u00e9habilitation de notre p\u00e8re, grand-p\u00e8re et arri\u00e8re-grand-p\u00e8re OIB. Car accus\u00e9 injustement de \u00ab Folie \u00bb par l\u2019administration coloniale fran\u00e7aise pour le d\u00e9porter en Oubangui-Chari, loin de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rubrique-principales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogoulaiquaqua.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}