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The difficult march towards democracy", the other work of Béni Sylvestre available in bookshops



The young Togolese Béni K. Sylvestre leaves: "Togo: The difficult march towards the democracy". The writer returns with a third work, after his novel "Fatal Error" and the collection of poems "I Proteste, totalitarianism is an inhumanism".


This is a political study, a 240-page essay published on June 22nd at Edilivre Editions in France. The book reviews the 50 years of the "political tragicomedia" that shakes the life of the Togolese nation.

"After the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio, the father of the independence of Togo, the country topples into a blind authoritarianism under Gnassingbe Eyadema without succeeding in its democratic transformation." Under the popular pressure, the simulacres of opening quickly turn into a tragedy. , The practice of savage repression covered the territory with a mosaic of disasters to crush the opposition militants.

These tragic episodes are depicted with great detail that whip sensitivity. Never did Gnassingbe, father and son, renounce state terrorism, the purchase of consciences, electoral break-ins, transgressions of regulations to face the leaven of a desire for political alternation that swells aspirations. An active delinquency of governance that spreads over everything ... ", reads by way of summary on the back cover of the novel.

Born in Lomé, Togo, Béni K. Sylvestre is a political journalist and essayist. He has been involved for years in the democratic struggle of African peoples to help build a new African society that respects individual rights and freedoms and is oriented towards a search for democracy.


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