The participation of 51 African countries in this festival, plus the United States and Brazil, with 10 000 artists and intellectuals, attests that Algeria is really living a proper African atmosphere. This  makes us saying that Algeria has travelled across Africa through artistic and musical soirees, meetings and conferences, exhibitions and festivals, and that the African continent has landed in Algeria, starting by Lucy, the mother of human kind, passing by Tanela Bonny, Youssou N’dour, Cheb Khaled, Mory Kanté, Cesária Évora , Frantz Fanon, Anta Diop, Myriam Makéba, and arriving to  André Brink, Aimé Césaire and others. Everybody has tuned on the same frequency, levelling the path for the African continent to take its deserved place in the nations’ concert.

It is true that Africa has made giant steps toward development, since colonialism is forbidden forever and South Africa has entered in the African countries arena after being reconciled with itself, but the way remains lengthy before being able to place necessary means of cooperation between African culture’s sons who affirm, every single day, that the continent can give advantage to its sons. The continent is beyond the phase of researching itself, and it is at the stage of its proper affirmation. They are the promises that the second Panafrican cultural festival that has turned to its spotlights, and this through its call for the creation of African cultural institutions or its insistence on the continuity of the organisation of such manifestations of which the efficiency of enshrining the African culture has been proved. Furthermore, the African cultural meeting that took place in Algeria, with its rich cultural and artistic diversity affirmed, once again, that African culture can produce fruits to feed African culture for a better promotion.

The Panafrican cultural festival has done its best to give the true image of the African culture, far from any artificial way or media speculation, be it on the aspect of organisation, or the diversity of its cultural contents, or the fact that culture is a space where Africa’s sons can meet, with only one language understood by all, in a mutual understanding and a complete coordination.   

If the first edition of the Panaf was strictly linked to the collective African memory, this festival will be the basis of the reconstruction of the African continent on dialogue and concord basis between all sons of the continent. This is the future for the entire African populations, or as has said the African militant Patrice Lumumba, in his last written letter to his wife : a day will come when the history will say its word ; Africa will write its own history ».