DSK: Guinean “nephews” and “nieces” set up group of support for their embattled “uncle” in Conakry and Kouroussa

Stéphane Keita

DSK's Franco-Guinean nephew and former aide

Undated photograph

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An article published July 5, 2011, by the Guinean e-zine AfricaLog titled “DSK et la Guinée avant ses déboires avec Nafissatou” (DSK and Guinea prior to his problems with Nafissatou) confirms what I wrote in my previous post on DSK. DSK has deep roots in Guinea.

His nephew, Stéphane Keita , is the son of DSK’s eldest sister, who was the first wife of police commissioner Keita Kara “de Soufiane” who, even before Guinea’s independence, served in the French police. He was indeed hanged in 1971.

Stéphane Keita is the second son of Keita Kara. Before him, Keita Kara had a son with a Guinean woman: Aboubacar Kara Keita, who lives in Conakry, and works as a technician at the national broadcasting service. (It’s my understanding that Stéphane Keita is the only son from the marriage of Keita Kara and DSK’s sister.)

Afterward, before his untimely demise, Keita Kara had many more children—the “many Guinean brothers and sisters” of Stéphane, as AfricaLog puts it—who have set up a group of support for their “uncle” DSK since the onset of the Nafissatou Diallo scandal:

“These numerous nephews and nieces (of DSK), who have never believed Nafissatou Diallo’s accusations, had, on their part, set up a group of support for DSK in Guinea, at (…) Madina, a populous quarter of Conakry, where the Keita Kara family lives, as well as at Balako, their home village in the prefecture of Kouroussa, in the Haute-Guinée."

Interestingly, the article mentions a funny anecdote of a meeting in 2007 between the then Guinean Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté and the IMF head DSK. Kouyaté, who was making a pitch for IMF intervention in his country, said: “Mon pays” (my country); and, without missing a beat, DSK corrected him and said: “Notre pays” (our country).