Songhai was a prosperous Beninese kingdom before the colonial era. Today it is an incredible local development initiative: training centers, farms, credit unions, cooperatives, assembly and catering lines, recycling workshops ... Songhaï began by restoring the confidence of Africans. Then he invited them to take charge of their economic and social future from micro-projects articulated with each other, without breaking with the cultural and natural environment, without depending on Western models. A story of an astonishing success and a theory of concrete development, this book gives the all too rare example of a global success in the world of the Third World. He will convince even Afro-pessimists.