Symptoms of the deterioration of political links

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Résumé

Voltaic students – then Burkinabe - from the years sixties to nineties were, in their large majority, politically enrolled at the left-wing. From the arrival of Gorbatchev at the head of the soviet state to the fall of the wall of Berlin and the liberation of Nelson Mandela in South Africa in the years nineties, their convictions have been brutally shaken up. This text deals with the itinerary of Burkinabe communist students enrolled in France universities in this period, first the way their political conviction has been forged since their secondary school, then the way they went through the whole story, finally the strategies they developed to survive the loss of this ideal, the renunciation of what, for some among them, constituted the very reason of their life. It is also a research work and reflection of a psychologist clinician who is also involved in this story at the same time.

Mots-clés

The fall of the communism, the end of the apartheid, the loss of the ideal, political disavowal, addictive behavior