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Jean-Noël Loucou et al., « Histoire et développement. », Cahiers d'Études africaines, ID : 10.3406/cea.1976.2892
J.-N. Loucou & C. Wondji— History and Development. Has history, as a scientific discipline, a role to play in the development of contemporary African societies ? Yes, if development is considered as a global, total enterprise and not just as a combination of economie growth and technological modernisation. A study in depth of both African and universal history is a prerequisite to the formation of the kind of collective awareness urgently needed in the new nation-States in order to break away from colonial alienation and achieve a kind of African Renaissance', without which there is no possibility of a meaningful development.