"... Pre-colonial Black Africa wants to be a book of" African historical sociology ", and proves it; the major problems developed in this work (analysis of the notion of caste, economies, States, ideologies, techniques and sciences of ancient Africa, etc.) have known, thanks to the recent work of young African academics, successful extensions. the master's suite. The comparison of the socio-political evolution of Europe and Africa, from Antiquity to Modern Times, and, above all, also, the problem, thorny, complex, of great interest scientific and human, primary migrations and the ethnogenesis of the present peoples of Africa will have to be the subject of more in-depth studies. All this requires a living interdisciplinarity through the cross-use of archeology, diachronic linguistics. , oral tradition, cultural anthropology, its ns neglecting the contribution of natural and physicochemical sciences. And, always, according to the exemplary rigor of Professor Cheikh Anta Diop, whose intellectual influence on serious African studies by Africans remains indestructible. The cultural and scientific dialogue between Africans and Others, at the international level, is at this price. "T. Obenga