KNOWLEDGE AND TRADITIONAL KNOW HOW
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KNOWLEDGE AND TRADITIONAL KNOW HOW

The crackle of Africa is inseparable from colonialism and still worse from the slave route it has travelled over 4 centuries.

In 1500, Africa had between 600 million and 1 billion people. In 1900, following the consequences of the slave trade and wars of colonization, the population fell to 100 million people, or a loss of 80 to 85%. Only the Amerindian people have gone through such a holocaust in the history of mankind. In 2000, the population of Africa is estimated at 710 million, or 12.5% of the world population.

The ingenuity, quality and quantity of work performed during several centuries, allowed Africa to reach by the past, a high living standard and to feed his children all over the countries regardless of the density per km2  whether the soil is rich or poor.

The abundance and prosperity that characterized yesterday Africa are due to a dazzling development of knowledge and traditional know how, which was testified by pre-colonial travellers’ stories such as Kaznini, Ibn Battuta, Ca da Mosto and other Valentin Fernandes

We owe the preservation and resurgence of knowledge and traditional know how in Africa, thanks to the eras of cultural resistance of the communities, to the genius of the people, to the dynamic Africanist for restoring the values of black civilization.

It is noble to plead for a rehabilitation of the knowledge and traditional know how, essential components of the revival of African culture and its reaching out for modern science
All human civilization builds itself upon a representation of the echo of the myth which it has of its originality. However, the knowledge and traditional know how translate the symbolic representation of this myth, either material, or ideal or simply human.


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Learning a language, a culture is to open up to the Other, is to accept the Other and the Difference.

Like languages, cultures differ in what they have to translate in order to express the full richness of human experience
Put one’s National identity, one’s patriotism in the service of the inter cultural constitutes a challenge for these present generations
Claim the right to difference, the Right to belong to a  Group in the Complementarities between peoples
No culture, no religion will find in a living space, an Earth culturally or spiritually poor, even less blank!!!
As one can live and translate his/her own culture, as one can underestimate the foundations of his/her own culture if one is  not able to  represent oneself what  is the fruit of several contributions from the other cultural sources.
The cultures of the world are leaning on each other, hence their complementarities in the quest for our existential balance
It is recognized that the diversity of cultures based on their parallel convergences and the release of their contacts through successive generations.
Ignorance, highlighted stereotypes, rejection of the Other  are synonymous with ignorance of the history of the evolution of cultures and civilizations.