Brazzaville, de la résistance sous l’empire colonial 1940 à la résilience aujourd’hui, c’est-à-dire de nos jours

The memorial history of Brazzaville, capital of Free France, had as its main actor, General De Gaulle. This shared history is a capital episode in the history of the great men of the 20th. He had sacrificed himself to save his country, The whose personality was shaped and formed from his early childhood of the principles of resistance, of war and not of amnesty, not of capitulation and even less of abdication, in front of the storms that France experienced in 1940. He mad Brazzaville, for a long time, his favorite residence, which resembled a theater of operations. In fact, the capital of Free France payed the triple role of political, legal and social city, on the one hand, of military resistance city and finaly of media city and instrument of Gaullist propaganda on the other hand. Didn’t these Gaullist practices inspire Congo Brazzaville to resistance, and even to endogenous resilience in the resolution of its fratricidal conflicts ? Wasn’t this kind of relay taken by the Congolese in the construction of the experience of the « mbongui » (the palaver hut), the place for excellence where the different agreements of cessation of hostilities were concluded, during its different fratricidal wars between 1993-1999 ? It is certainly this same experience that was exported to the other countries affected by conflicts abroad, especially in Africa. In many respects, « the man from Brazzaville » remains to be copied by the younger generations post world war II, including the years that followed, to know that it is necessary to face the issue and constraints of our time througt the understanding of the important period of the history of the twentieth (20th) century, in order to enlighten and elevate their thinking in the face of the realities and challenges of the twenty-firt (21st) century.