Paul Abouna brings forth the dawn and twilight of culture

What is culture? A word with 160 definitions. Did man come before culture? What is above culture?

These three questions like the paradox of the egg and the hen, which Paul Abouna provides scientific, sometimes wrenching, answers in his latest book entitled ' the birth, history and the development of culture: pre-culture, culture and post-culture.

Where we sometimes believed closed discussions, authors such as Levi Strauss or Lucien Malso said that one cannot speak of man without talking of culture. Paul Abouna, who defines culture as “the solutions developed by human communities to solve their problems,” arrived with a contrary position. For him, there was indeed a period where man existed without culture.

The period where the anthropologist located in the Paleolithic period prior to life in society, where individuals, showed the characteristics of a mode of satisfaction of human needs facing pre-culture, in accordance with nature.

The author insisted on post-culture, which he defines as "any mechanism for the satisfaction of human needs which is non-natural and out of human reach.” The Commission considers that there exist post-culture, marked by divine intervention to help man.

Paul Abouna justifies his thesis with scientific arguments, but with such a demonstration based on the Christian religion, and specifically the Bible as a sediment to Judeo Christian civilization, three millennia old and a strong community today of 2.2 billion people.

He reviewed dozens of miracles, including two cases: a God of the Bible, Earth, and a committed God of the Church, heavenly, uncommitted, to pick up the impotence of the Church today, to solve the problems of men like once, according to the writings. Where the dual mark of the author: why culture is unfit today? And why post-culture is not prevented more?

These are concerns that are not shared by the ordinary people and which are of a certain erudition. Moreover, the work is prefaced by Jacques Fame Ndongo, the Minister for Higher Education and afterword by Pr. Bonji Edjenguèlè.