To erase the memory of a people is to contribute to its destruction. It is undoubtedly to avoid this deterioration of the history of our country that many Internet users have criticized the sale of part of the former home of the late President Léon Mba.
Indeed, this affair relayed in our columns on Thursday, has not finished shaking the web. This place, where the first president of Gabon, which became independent on August 17, 1960, lived after nearly a century of colonial domination by France, must be preserved! It deserves national heritage status. Selling it to a third party is a real sacrilege to the memory of the founding fathers of this country.
In any case, that’s what Internet users have felt since the affair broke out. Moreover, several Gabonese people have challenged the country’s new authorities.
If the regime deposed on August 30, 2023 had no desire to preserve the history of Gabon, it is up to the new authorities to mark their difference. This residence must be seized, rebuilt identically and transformed into a museum.
How can we understand that Albert Schweitzer’s hospital in Lambaréné is made a world heritage site – in any case a plea is made in this direction – and that the main residence of the first Gabonese head of state does not even have national recognition ?
A country without history has neither soul nor patriotic fiber. This sale is a real sacrilege that the State must repair!
