À travers ce livre d'entretiens, Rémy Rioux, directeur de l'Agence française de développement, et Achille Mbembe, historien, spécialiste des questions postcoloniales à qui Emmanuel Macron a commandé la rédaction d'un rapport sur les relations France- Afrique, interrogent le poids du passé colonial ainsi que les mutations en cours à l'heure de la mondialisation et de l'anthropocène. Revenant sur les grands défis du XXIe siècle, ils appellent tous deux à développer une politique et une diplomatie du vivant qui préservent les conditions d'habitabilité de la Terre.

Wherever you look, the economic, social, climate, and geopolitical fault lines are growing deeper. There is widespread instability, at national and international levels. But these divides provide us with a unique opportunity. Let's seize the chance to look again at inequality and the preservation of the planet. Let's embark together on a journey of reconciliations. To build a world in common, we need a new project. And a new concept with practical applications that will resonate widely. Remy Rioux calls for a reinvented development policy, able to meet the challenges of the twenty first century and of the Sustainable Development Goals. He argues reconciliations should be both its goal and its method. For Rioux, this is the only way of finally bridging the North-South divide, acting on inequality, speeding up the necessary transitions, and transcending power relations, allowing new and equal relationships to develop. A visionary essay, explaining today's world and showing us new ways forward.  Preface by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala