This book is a critical overview of debates on culture in contemporary Africa. Based on a clear and wide-ranging reading of the great African currents of thought, it lays the ethical, spiritual and socio-political foundations for the invention of a new African culture capable of facing up to the challenges of today's world and the stakes of the future. Its ambition is to open up a fertile path for a renewal of the imagination, a revolution of intelligence, an innovation of social practices and a global awakening of consciousness in Africa. The aim is to reimagine the continent's destiny in terms of its creative genius, its vital aspirations and all its beautiful dreams for the future. At a time when African society is facing the steamroller of a global civilization that is shattering its very essence, the horizon opened up here is that of Africa's reconciliation with its creative potential, on the basis of controlled cultural changes, mutations decided in all lucidity and in the spirit of inventive and united responsibility.