One of the best ways to honour the memory of the ancestors is to make resolutions that heal the wounds of the past and guarantee fraternal relations, respectful of the dignity of each human being. If it is good to demand the return of what belongs to us, it is even better to optimize the measures aimed at encouraging young people to take more ownership of what their elders have taken care to preserve and reclaim.
culture is a sum of historical beliefs and practices which make the particularity of each people and which must always be transmitted from generation to generation so that its memory does not disappear, or is lost over time, especially in a context where globalization allows a proliferation of culture which certainly allows mutual enrichment, but also exerts a power of attractiveness on less advanced civilizations on the economic, technological and scientific levels. Indeed, African populations in particular are tempted to embrace values that go against their cultural identities in the name of a modernization that has left cultural dogmas at the mercy of a liberticidal freedom which itself constitutes a threat to the future of African cultures. It is in this perspective that the steps taken to repatriate part of the cultural heritage are commendable. But beyond a restitution, it would be better to see it as a way for African leaders to help their youth to be even more interested in their history or their culture in particular, in order to always keeping in mind who they are whatever the country or the continent where they are called to take place.
History of peoples and cultural identities
A people without history is comparable to a body without a soul. It is history that makes the people. Cultures are the fruit of traditions that have passed through time and which make the particularity of each people. Before being a citizen, Men is first of all a culture called to serve the nation. The past is therefore not just a set of previous facts that make us who we are. It is also and above all a set of present acts that can outrage the past and force it to show its dissatisfaction with a generation that does not honour it; hence the need to prefer traditional African values to all others, not in the sense of excluding or condemning them, but in order to remain who we are despite everything.
