Dr. Lazare KI-ZERBO is a professor of philosophy in French Guiana, Independent researcher on Pan-Africanism, and human rights expert. His thesis presented at Poitiers University (France) was about a phenomenological perspective on social ontology and political unity. He worked at the Center for Studies on African development in Burkina Faso, and has edited, in French, African studies on geography from below and The Pan-African ideal, and an online anthology of the most important texts related to The pan-African Movement in the 20th century. He was present at the Conference of Africa’s and Diaspora Intellectuals organized in Dakar in 2004 and Salvador de Bahia in 2006 and the fiftieth anniversary of Ghana’s independence in Accra 2008. He has participated in a project about popular archives, referring to the literature/oratures of social and pan-Africanist movements. - He recently made a call for strengthening specific integration schemes - between Ghana, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. - His current research interests focus on the concept of African humanities, the lives of Elliott P. Skinner and Alfred Diban, the place of Brazil in the Pan-African project.
