Culture is but the fine flowering of real education, and it is the training of the feeling, the tastes, and the manners that makes it so.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

Beyond the refusal of all exterior domination is the urge to reconnect in a deep way with Africa's cultural heritage, which has been for too long misunderstood and rejected. Far from being a superficial or folkloric attempt to bring back to life some of the traditions or practices of our ancestors, it is a matter of constructing a new African society, whose identity is not confused from outside.