[eng] Jean Cop ANS — Of what use are books ? Africanising Echoes.. S. Smith is a cultured journalist. However a volume 2 to his Négrologies is obviously wanting. Unfortunately those who uphold the opposite view of a timeless and transcontinental African culture are just as schematic....

</titre> <alinea/> The contributions of this issue are the written versions of oral presentations made in Jean COPANS?seminar at EHESS in 2004 and 2005. Researchers from four different disciplinary fields (geography, economics, sociology and anthropology) and from agronomy describe their personal encounter so to...

S. Smith is a cultured journalist. However a volume 2 to his Négrologies is obviously wanting. Unfortunately those who uphold the opposite view of a timeless and transcontinental African culture are just as schematic. Researchers no doubt share some responsibility for the absence of books...