{"id":42081,"date":"2025-07-31T23:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/politique\/independance-du-togo-par-le-refus-de-voter"},"modified":"2025-08-01T04:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T04:55:21","slug":"independance-du-togo-par-le-refus-de-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/togo\/dossiers\/independance-du-togo-par-le-refus-de-voter","title":{"rendered":"Ind\u00e9pendance du Togo par le refus de voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Togo. <\/strong><\/span>Le boycott n\u2019est pas une fuite, mais une arme strate\u0301gique qui, bien manie\u0301e, peut renverser l\u2019histoire_.<\/p>\n<p>Et si je vous disais que c\u2019est gra\u0302ce au boycott, non pas d\u2019une mais pre\u0300s de dix e\u0301lections, que le Togo a conquis l\u2019inde\u0301pendance de son drapeau?<\/p>\n<p>De 1950 a\u0300 1956, le bloc nationaliste mene\u0301 par le Comite\u0301 de l\u2019Unite\u0301 Togolaise (CUT) a choisi de boycotter syste\u0301matiquement toutes les e\u0301lections organise\u0301es par l\u2019administration coloniale franc\u0327aise. Face aux fraudes e\u0301lectorales re\u0301currentes qui favorisaient les partis collaborateurs, cette strate\u0301gie de re\u0301sistance passive s\u2019est re\u0301ve\u0301le\u0301e redoutablement efficace.<\/p>\n<p>Le ge\u0301nie de cette approche? Coupler le boycott a\u0300 une intense activite\u0301 diplomatique a\u0300 l\u2019ONU. Le statut particulier du Togo \u2013 territoire sous tutelle onusienne et non simple colonie \u2013 offrait une tribune internationale unique. Les nationalistes du CUT ont manifeste\u0301 leur me\u0301contentement jusqu\u2019a\u0300 la tribune de l\u2019ONU sous forme de pe\u0301tition, contraignant l\u2019organisation internationale a\u0300 agir.<\/p>\n<p>Cette pression a porte\u0301 ses fruits: l\u2019ONU a envoye\u0301 une mission d\u2019e\u0301valuation dirige\u0301e par l\u2019ambassadeur libe\u0301rien Charles King en 1957. Pendant cette mission cruciale, les nationalistes ont organise\u0301 des manifestations massives a\u0300 Lome\u0301, Mango et Pya. Le 21 juin 1957, l\u2019arme\u0301e franc\u0327aise massacre une vingtaine de personnes a\u0300 Pya-Hodo, transformant ces martyrs en symboles de la lutte pour la liberte\u0301.<\/p>\n<p>Le CUT saisit l\u2019occasion pour remettre un me\u0301morandum re\u0301clamant des e\u0301lections libres sous supervision onusienne. Sous la pression de l\u2019ONU, le gouvernement franc\u0327ais est contraint d\u2019organiser des e\u0301lections sous surveillance d\u2019e\u0301missaires onusiens. Re\u0301sultat: le CUT remporte une victoire e\u0301crasante en avril 1958, ouvrant la voie a\u0300 l\u2019inde\u0301pendance de 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Nous avons e\u0301te\u0301 a\u0300 l\u2019e\u0301cole des strate\u0300ges de la lutte pour l\u2019inde\u0301pendance. Comme le rappelle Robert Greene: \u00ab Il s\u2019agit de regarder au-dela\u0300 de l\u2019instant pre\u0301sent&#8230; Vous pensez en termes de campagne, et non en batailles individuelles. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Le boycott n\u2019est pas une fuite, mais une arme strate\u0301gique qui, bien manie\u0301e, peut renverser l\u2019histoire.<\/p>\n<p>Gnimde\u0301wa Atakpama, auteur de La Nuit est longue mais la re\u0301volution vient, Amania Editions, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pour plus d&rsquo;informations et d&rsquo;analyses sur la <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Togo<\/span>, suivez <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Togo. Le boycott n\u2019est pas une fuite, mais une arme strate\u0301gique qui, bien manie\u0301e, peut renverser l\u2019histoire_. 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De 1950 a\u0300 1956, le bloc nationaliste mene\u0301 par [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":42080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[528,1343,50,2918],"class_list":["post-42081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dossiers","category-toutes-les-actualites","tag-elections","tag-independance-du-togo","tag-togo","tag-vote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ind\u00e9pendance du Togo par le refus de voter - Togo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Le boycott n\u2019est pas une fuite, mais une arme strate\u0301gique qui, bien manie\u0301e, peut renverser l\u2019histoire_. 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