“Joseph Ki- Zerbo has contributed a lot to endow Africa with a history of its own, different from the one written by the colonizer. To him, Africa, that somehow invented man, must conquer its own identity, proud of its contribution to the human adventure, in order to become an actor in the world. ‘Without identity, he says, we are an object of History, an instrument used by others, a tool.’” “Joseph Ki-Zerbo, born in Toma (Burkina Faso) in 1922, is a historian. He is interviewed by René Holenstein, doctor in History and expert in development issues, that works in Burkina Faso for a long time.”