Anthropologist Deeply Involved in Africa Development Interdisciplinarity and the Issue of Africa Development
Today, interdisciplinarity lies more in his proclaimed speech than in its effective implementation. Observation shows that scientists or technicians often hide behind the disciplinary dogmatism to hinder the connexion between interdisciplinary skills. Yet the fact is that anthropology does not belong to anthropologists, as well as other disciplines do not belong to those who think of themselves as the tenants of their discipline or fully identify themselves to it. This contribution is less about the mediation between disciplins than about the dialogue between scientists on complex objects, mainly the land issue in African development. The reflexion is therefore refocused on the question of transformation of African societies in the process of profound changes with the problem of land issue, which reappears in the development process as a complex scientific instrument going far beyond the concern of a single discipline and of a sole continent. Beyond the need for dialogue between scientists, the text also addresses the problem of establishing a model of organizational and functional structure in order to promote the articulation of areas of scientific and technical skills able to respond effectively to Africa development issue. In this concern, the organization of a competence pole on the model of university hospitals in France could be considered as relevant for structuring the land issue and the natural resources management for development in Africa with the help of interdisciplinarity.