Decolonizing African Heroes' books: The paths to glory

Taytu Betul, Dulcie September, Dedan Kemathi, Djibo Bakary, Moussa Traore, Robert Mugabe, Franz Fanon, Toussaint Louverture.

The common thing between these women and men is that they are figures considered, rightly or wrongly, as occupants of the book of African Heroes. But how did they become a heroine or hero of African history? How do you get entered into this book? Through the front door or through a windy, chaotic, perverse path? or even one dug by a subtle propaganda of the masters of yesterday and today?

How many of these authorized and imposed heroes are found in this famous book? 

Let us review these paths of glory, to paraphrase Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film, or rather the British poet Thomas Gray, to whom Kubrick himself borrowed it.