The major challenge of humanity today is to let the national blow into the international and to let the international blow into the national. In order to avoid that the contrary winds in the vintage of the international in the national and in the brood of the national in the international turn into devastating currents. As in some parts of the world today. It is in his quest for harmony in this perspective of encounters between the local and the global that Tiken Jah Fakoly situates himself, as a spokesman, between two thinkers of the intermediary between the closed and the open that Bernard Zadi Zaourou and Jaspers Karl represent. Such is the juice of this essay.