La traversée du désert, chemin de dialogue entre l’Afrique et l’Europe

AUTEUR : THERESE SAMAKE

ABSTRACT 

The current communication pleads for a new integral humanism and a new ethics of encounter in the relationship between Africa and Europe. Its starting point is the metaphor of the crossing of the desert experienced by subsaharian migrants to Europe : the crossing of the desert challenges them so much in time and space that they cannot succeed whithout perseverance ; it confronts the to the lack of reference and of rootedness necessary for self humanisation. Africa and Europe together can cross together the desert of globalisation and fundamentalism only if with perseverance they build up an integral humanism in their concrete cultures overcoming their own limits, using the means of intercultural dialogue which aims at a just social order and a harmonious living together ; having also recourse to the edification of an collective understanding of religion which puts a brake on fundamentalism, preventing it from feeding on the ongoing process of globalisation.