The purpose of the panel is to promote, contribute to and critically analyze the current configuration of the different African countries, which are facing, from their experiences and realities, specific challenges derived from the shared history of colonialism whose shadow is dragging on to the present, namely the institutions and mechanisms introduced, up to and including the very logics that end up being reproduced on African soil. After independence, however, it is worth asking, first of all, to what extent have the nation-states succeeded in throwing off the colonial yoke? If not, why not, and what does it mean for the African continent for the future? Identifying the continuities in post-colonialism, by which full decolonization has not been achieved after independence, as well as understanding how it is intertwined with respect to its own historical trajectory, becomes essential in order to make an exhaustive and honest diagnosis of the pathologies and sequels, as a result of the colonial experience, that weaken and contribute to the impoverishment of the rich African continent. In this sense, as it emerges from the thought of Kwame Nkrumah, a referent of Pan-Africanism, freedom implies responsibility, fostering, on the one hand, the intellectual and politician, a deep feeling of civic duty, and on the other, assuming the responsibility that this freedom entails, including the consequences of thinking and acting in accordance with it, thus offering African peoples a proposal and a tool endowed with a truly emancipating charge. It takes shape from the particular, within the nation-state, and extends to the general, to the continent as a whole. This process means moving towards and spearheading its own development, which is not only material. For this reason it is equally important to endow this dialogue with critical nouns which, in turn, means, for Santos, to adequately identify absences and novelties, among others, in the field of politics. A first approach originates in the rethinking of a new indigenous and black-African epistemology. A properly articulated dialogue in which there is a clear understanding of what it means and implies to proceed from and for decoloniality, opening the way to a profound transformation towards a future in which Africans can and must decide for themselves. How can this configuration take place without a sincere dialogue and without taking into due account and with due sobriety the demands that emerge from the different corners of the continent? This panel intends to create this space to confront, from its complexity and ambivalences, this process by which inter-subjective relations between subjectivities, each endowed with their own constructions of the world, are rethought.