This text handles with the fate of the built monuments to the memory of victims built as martyrs in a context of crisis in Côte d'Ivoire. He is mainly interested in the way the political systems legitimize them since their construction. As regards him "Monument of the martyrs", the results show a kind of legitimization of the power in sync with the mobilization of urban logics. Which passes by the gratitude and the valuation to the deaths set up as martyrs and by the strategies of identification, resistance and identity domination. The article tends to highlight a variability of the fields of use of the monument as social resource and the representations which are associated with it, the links built between such representations and the arrangement of the city during period going from 2002 till 2010. As a matter of fact, the text shows that the legitimization of the monument in the urban dynamics favors rationalities the coherence of which strengthens the public action regarding governance, regarding production of a shape of citizenship, a type of collective identity and spatial marking Keyswords: Identity ; Martyr ; Memory ; Monument ; Governance RésuméCe texte traite du sort des monuments bâtis à la mémoire de victimes construites comme des martyrs dans un contexte de crise en Côte d'Ivoire. Il s'intéresse principalement à la façon dont les régimes politiques les légitiment depuis leur construction. En ce qui concerne le « monument des martyrs », les résultats montrent une sorte de légitimation

L’article a pour objectif d’analyser les expressions et les modalités de la citoyenneté de Béninois à Gonzagueville, dans la période qui va de la colonisation à la fin du parti unique en 1990. Au cours de cette période, ces immigrés ont eu une implication significative dans la vie politique, économique, culturelle de ce quartier de la commune de Port-Bouet, dans le District d’Abidjan en Côte d’Ivoire. Cette expérience de la citoyenneté s’est faite en dehors des normes formelles d’intégration prescrites dans la Constitution. On y voit des schémas de représentation comme le «don», la «gratuité», s’articuler autour de l’accès aux ressources sociales, matérielles et symboliques telles que la terre, la chefferie, l’autochtonie. Il en découle un type spécifique de valorisation des liens sociaux au sein du quartier.

This article aims to examine the strategies of reconstruction of the "Mossi" origin among the descendants of naturalized immigrants in Bouaflé. The qualitative data obtained are the result of a series of individual and collective interviews. At the end of the study, it appears that the processes of reconstruction of origin appear as practices aimed on the one hand to escape the ethnic control induced by the anteriority on this reception area and on the other hand to strengthen the quests for autonomy orchestrated through the claim of native status.These practices are carried out concurrently and implicitly following units of action between naturalized villages. They also hide mechanisms aimed at enhancing the identity of native groups among the local native groups. This essentially involves symbolic and economic resources such as the legitimization of the "Mossi electorate", the strengthening of expressions of citizenship in the direction of the autonomy of naturalized villages and the appropriation of land.

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