Commentaire
Jean-Paul Gouteux explains in Le Monde, un contre-pouvoir? (L'Esprit frappeur, 1999) that this caricature by Pancho illustrates article by Jean Hélène. It represents the Tutsi president of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya, under the pressure of an embargo decided (probably to the astonishment of the editorial staff of Le Monde) by the other components of "the empire Tutsi": Uganda and Rwanda. Here again, the ethnic perception of the World Africa team is expressed in a "caricatural" way by what Pancho considers to be, in the mouth of a "< em>Tutsi leader", an insult. As in the low-level racist newspapers published in the pre-genocidal period in Rwanda, caricature remains a means of expressing oneself brutally and openly. It is for what is considered to be a "great honorable medium of the center left" a way of bluntly illustrating what he can only say in a careful and polite manner.
