After centuries of slavery, conquest and colonization, but also decades of misguided independence, calamitous governance and appalling followership, which partly explain Africa's current situation, it has proved necessary to set up a  Forum of Reflection to rethink, from a new angle, the African and Afro-descendant presence and contributions to the world.

Moving beyond the victimization and the usual self-defending posture in which we exhaust ourselves in vain arguments against others’s prejudices on our “Africaness” or our “backwardness”, AFROSPECTIVES intends to mobilize continental and diasporic intelligence to actively participate in the reflection and  action on the important issues of our time dialogue.

AFROSPECTIVES will contribute to the global effort of reconceptualisation and paradigms change through the revaluation and/or invention of endogenous concepts capable of reflecting the plurality of worldviews. Intellectual independence, rigorous research approaches and freedom of expression in exchanges are the foundations of the credibility of this Think Tank, which is not affiliated with any political, economic or other interest group or school of thought.