The son of Douaouf, the great scribe of the beginning of the XIIth Dynasty Xty "Khety" said this:
“Man continues to subsist after reaching the Haven of Death and his deeds are beside him in a heap. If regression is the main cause of the alarming situation in Africa and its tinsel the perceptible consequences at all levels, the solution to this problem is eminently political. It inevitably goes through the constitution of a pan-African state.
For Men, there is no unity without memory of the past. In fact, the construction of a federal state inevitably involves the restoration of African historical consciousness. There is no national and federal identity without a COMMON LANGUAGE. The unification of Africa will therefore only be possible if it takes the measure of its linguistic unification.
To a lesser extent, but like Cheikh Anta DIOP in Cultural Unity, I was animated throughout this heuristic by the idea that only true knowledge of the past can maintain consciousness and the feeling of a historical continuity essential to the consolidation of a nation for the purpose of building a multinational state in accordance with its past.
Like Cheikh Anta Diop, I build my certainty on the legitimate idea that a people who have lost an important part of their historical memory must engage in the investigation of their past by all possible means. This investigation can take the contours of a reconnection with its past through so-called ancient languages. But a people cannot live by simply repeating what others tell them to say about themselves.
The investigation through its linguistic past allows above all a direct knowledge of oneself. In addition to the fact that this knowledge simply highlights its weaknesses, it makes it possible to become aware through an introspective and therefore reflexive process of its real capacities and strengths. It structures Being and the consciousness of Being to resist any form of servile and degrading ideology.
This quest for the past, not based on blind passion but on objectivity, nourishes a healthy ambition for real universalism. Knowing your past is already planning your future. Knowing your past is giving yourself the ability to be able to bring to others in a perspective of giving and receiving. Knowing your past is to refuse intellectual supervision and the wait-and-see policy. Knowing your past is already being reborn.
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