The lesson of the founding father

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CIt is not because we do not have the material means that we should not undertake. If the material means were the absolute condition to undertake, the human being would still be at the stage of the primate. Indeed language, the foundation of culture, this characteristic of the human being, postulates the appearance of a being visited by the verb, among the primitives.

It is with good reason that African tradition places an exceptional being at the origin of the creation of society, "possessed" beings: the ziri-gnons or komians, the function of which is to serve as instrument to the Word in the creative activity of preverbal forms: constituent elements of the "parade" of language.

The fact of being destitute in prehistory did not therefore prevent the line of bearers of the Word from being torn away from the cycle of nature, by the creation of language coextensive with parietal works.