As I repeat, it concerns me with this series of passages from the book of brothers Azouma I am about to deliver, providing you with a speech that contrasted with romantic visions of Africa and complacent, very often conveyed. I also wanted to give space to African intellectuals on the state of their own continent as a counterweight to the work of Western intellectuals who are not invested in the best, you will agree to talk. The story is still very fresh.
( Hazoumé, Edgard Alain and Africa, a future stay in Paris, Harmattan 1988 ,
Prologue)
"The chaos is imminent if the gulf so captivating, that we dare not, despite the supposed clarity that comes with adulthood, face up. The dreaded drop will be even more inevitable. This blindness contributes to a kind of exorcism, a ritual incantation whose relationship with our traditional imagery is striking. Decidedly in the background of this a thousand neon Africa, the tourism agencies and international conferences continues to profile the other Africa, we thought finally fixed on postcards and in textbooks of Ethnology. How the West accrût its technical capabilities, propelling man into space, recreating the environment with images and sounds, making this our most powerful gods were unable to make our wildest dreams is a major question that we do not ask. Failure
voluntary selective memory? Long ago we abandoned all sense of competition, any attempt to catch up. Besides, do we catch up her senior? The scale of time is relentless. If we interrupt this moment of rapid evolution of the Western world, it is probable taking assumption for the permanence of types of current behavior, that black Africa would have still reached the point in the third millennium. The state of techno-cultural development known as the West is not the result of a mechanical accumulation of recipes expertly spiced. We need a movement making the curious man, thirsty for knowledge, assailed with questions and never be tired to question and to structure its work.
all civilizations are equal as they are ignored. When they meet, the comparison is not flattering to the lower and in any domination is at the end, if she can meet the challenge. "
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