Hessel "leaves us with the invaluable heritage of fighting for universalhumanvalues and his inalienable sense of liberty, " Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said Wednesday.
Born in 1922 in Toma (Upper-Volta) and deceased in 2006 in Ouagadougou at 84 years old, Joseph Ki-Zerbo was a lifelong humanist, ceaselessly fighting for the respect of human and universalvalues.