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African historiography, like other types of historiographies, has continued to open up to modernity. Such advances require the historian to be able to question his discipline. Such questioning touches on various aspects which range from the choice of profession, to its future/becoming, including the very way of practicing it depending on whether one is African or other, specialist in ancient, medieval or contemporary history. These are some of the issues that the author of this text tries to address. In this he relies on his own experience and leads to the conclusion according to which the way of being of the historian and above all, the context, the conditions of production and the way he does his discipline, have a considerable impact on the type of story he is keen to produce. By positioning himself for a wider availability of archival sources in particular, and new types of support for the dissemination of African history, the author believes that only quality historians would succeed in serving as a beacon for the younger generations of ever-increasing colleagues, and to the young African elite. It is only at this price that they could shed light on their political and Pan-Africanist commitment.

Num Pages: 4 DOI:10.4324/9781003218197