L’actualité de la recherche en sciences sociales et humaines en Afrique: prospectives et perspectives
Current research in social sciences and humanities in Africa: prospects and perspectives

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a reflection on current research in Africa in the field of social and human sciences. Regular scientific meetings with colleagues in African societies, discussions with colleagues in our various interdisciplinary networks of social and human sciences in Africa and Europe, as well as shared publications justify such temerity. Can we think of Africa from the inside and the outside? Based on my eventful historical experience and my scientific practice, how can I analyze social facts without being accused of Afrocentrism? I will start from the begging the question according to which the space of production of scientific knowledge on societies is also, if not often, the space of social experimentation of the researcher. In the ante colonial, colonial and post colonial historical discontinuity in sub Saharan Africa, what are the modalities of formation of political, economic, social, cultural and religious subjectivities observable by the anthropologist? What are the theoretical tools used to think about African productions of modernity? This is the centrality of my constantly renewed questions thanks to the social changes studied from the Congolese and French terrain.

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