Exit from the dark night

There is a tremendous effort currently underway to reconnect and gather in the African continent and around it. But its human cost is undoubtedly high. It is a profound effort to build the structures of thought, and to transform African mentality towards a global future, and this future cannot be achieved except through an interconnected relationship of dismantling colonial mental structures, recreating the African self, and taking into account its diversities. Africa's future will be shaped by actively engaging with its paradoxes and its unpreparedness to submit. This is Africa that liberates its social framework and spatial structure, and is now heading in both directions — towards its past and its future. Africa that seeks to nurture this world and immerse itself in it, and to pay attention to the present moment. Africa of deep hybrid languages and voices, Africa that grants a central place to experience, Africa where astonishing postmodern images and practices emerge. Africa that creates a world welcoming to all, where everyone can enter without restriction or condition, and where everyone can embrace each other with open eyes. It cannot be separated from the world, in its interconnected nature and complex character, as a tribute to this land we share, and in honor of all its inhabitants, including humans and non-humans.