Stellio Capo Chichi

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Stellio Gilles Robert Capo Chichi (born December 9, 1981), better known by his pseudonym Kémi Séba (French language version of Egyptian for "black star"),[1] is a Black French writer,[2] activist and Pan-Africanist[2] political leader. Jeune Afrique referred to him as "the French Farrakhan", linking him to the leader of the Nation of Islam in the United States (US).[3] Since April 2013 he is a geopolitical analyst in the popular west african Talk-Show Le grand rendez-vous and give many lectures about the Pan-Africanism in many african universities.[2]

Origin

Capo Chichi was born in Strasbourg to immigrant parents from Benin.[1][note 1] He joined the US-based Nation of Islam (NOI) as an eighteen-year-old, and later formulated his own ideology while visiting Egypt in his twenties.[4] As a result of this process, he took the nom de guerre Kémi Séba and became the spokesperson of the fringe Parti Kémite (Kemet[disambiguation needed] Party), which was founded in 2002 and inspired by Khalid Abdul Muhammad.[5][6]

Tribu KA

In December 2004, Capo Chichi founded the Parisian political group Tribu KA, which promotes black identity and has been accused of racism against Jews.[7][8] The group said it followed the ideology of the American NOI leader, Louis Farrakhan.[9][10] They have also been described as proponents of a mix of antisemitic Kemetism and Guénonian Islam.[11] The group's name is an abbreviation for 'The Atenian Tribe of Kemet'.[6]

In a May 2006 demonstration, 20 or more Tribu Ka members marched along the Rue des Rosiers (in the Marais, a Jewish neighborhood) shouting antisemitic slogans and threatening pedestrians.[9][10][12] Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy sent a letter to Justice Minister Pascal Clément saying Tribu Ka could be indicted for racist incitement; SOS Racisme and the Union des étudiants juifs de France also called for Tribu Ka to be banned; and Clément opened an investigation.[7] The Ministry of Interior dissolved Tribu Ka on July 26, 2006, but it reformed in Sarcelles under the name Génération Kémi Séba.[7][8][13] During the trial of Youssouf Fofana, the leader of the ethnic gang Les Barbares that murdered Ilan Halimi, Capo Chichi had sent an intimidating e-mail message to various Jewish associations.[6]

Imprisonment

Capo Chichi was arrested in September 2006 for allegedly antisemitic posts on his website, and again in February 2007 after he called a public official "Zionist scum." After the initial court hearing in 2006, supporters chanted, "The judge is a Zionist, the client is a Zionist, the decision will be Zionist." In February 2007, a French court near Paris sentenced Capo Chichi, the self-described "militant defender of the dignity of French citizens," to five months imprisonment for criminal contempt of the law.[13][14] In April 2008, a Parisian court verdict determined Génération Kémi Séba was the reconstitution of the dissolved group Tribu Ka, and sentenced Capo Chichi to a one-year prison sentence with suspension.[15]

In June 2009, Brice Hortefeux, Minister of the Interior, ordered the dissolution of the group Jeunesse Kémi Séba, founded to replace Génération Kémi Séba.[16][17]

MDI

After his release from prison in July 2008, Capo Chichi announced that he had converted to Islam.[18] In March 2009, he became the secretary general of Mouvement des damnés de l'impérialisme (MDI, "Movement of Those Damned By Imperialism"). MDI retains close ties with the Shia paramilitary Lebanese-based group Hezbollah in their anti-Zionist campaigns.[19] In June 2009, MDI announced that Holocaust denier Serge Thion had joined the movement.[20]

New Black Panther Party

In April 2010, Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the US-based New Black Panther Party (NBPP), appointed Capo Chichi the party's representative in France and gave him the nom de guerre Kemiour Aarim Shabazz.[21] In July 2010, Capo Chichi left his position as the president of MDI but continued as the head of the francophone branch of NBPP.[22]

By 2011, Capo Chichi left France and settled in Senegal. In March 2011, it was announced that Capo Chichi was named the spokesman for Amadou Lamine Faye, the minister-counsellor in charge of Pan-Africanism under president Abdoulaye Wade. However, such nomination was later refuted.[23]

Connection with Dieudonné

Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, commonly known as Dieudonné, has become a controversial French comedian. For six years, he satirized numerous groups with his childhood Jewish friend and stage partner Elie Semoun. Since 2002, Dieudonné has often been accused of anti-Semitism and has appeared to move to the right politically, appearing with Jean-Marie Le Pen of the French National Front, for instance.[12] In 2006 Dieudonné allowed Kemi Séba to use his Theatre La Main d'Or, to hold meetings in which he "reportedly praised Hitler's ideas on race."[12] Dieudonné's office issued a statement noting his ideological distance from Séba, but he later that year allowed Séba to stage a show (titled Sarkophobia) in his theater.[12]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Another source says that Capo Chichi's parents were from Côte d'Ivoire and Haiti. Reiss, "Laugh Riots", The New Yorker, 2007 (see below.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 «On me traite de nazi noir», Le Nouvel Observateur, 30 October 2008.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 [1] Kemi Seba, de la Tribu Ka au Sénégal
  3. ↑ Qui est le Farrakhan français ?, Jeune Afrique, 31 July 2006
  4. ↑ Andrew Hussey, "The Paris Intifada", Granta, vol. 104, subscribers only
  5. ↑ Stephen Smith and Géraldine Faes, Noir et Français, 2006
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Kémi Séba, la Tribu KA et le kémitisme", Le Racisme anti-blanc
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Helene Fouquet, "Riots in Paris Suburbs Spark Fear of Violent Wave", Bloomberg, 30 May 2006, accessed 4 Dec 2010
  11. ↑ "Le Weltanschauung de la Tribu Ka, Stéphane François, Damien Guillame, and Emmanuel Kreis
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 Tom Reiss, Letter from Paris: "Laugh Riots: The French star who became a demagogue", The New Yorker, 19 Nov 2007, accessed 4 Dec 2010
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 French gang leader sentenced[dead link] Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Tribu Ka: un an de prison avec sursis pour reconstitution de ligue dissoute
  16. ↑ "Dissolution du groupuscule 'Jeunesse Kemi Seba'"
  17. ↑ France - Dissolution of ""Jeunesse 'Kémi Séba" ("'Kémi Séba Youth"), The Coordinating Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism
  18. ↑ Kémi Séba Musulman!!! Official website of Kémi Séba
  19. ↑ Le MDI avec le Hezbollah contre le Sionism Official website of MDI
  20. ↑ Serge Thion rejoint le MDI Official website of MDI
  21. ↑ Kemi Seba nommé par le New Black Panther Party, basé à Washington, Ministre francophone Official website of MDI
  22. ↑ Interview d’Hery Djehuty Sechat, nouveau Président du MDI Official website of MDI
  23. ↑ Au Sénégal, un conseiller de Wade embauche Kémi Séba avant-de l'accuser de s'être servi de lui

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