Jean Rouch discusses his discovery of Africa in 1941, condemns the indifferent attitude of Europeans in Africa towards the black community and how they express racism. He speaks of administrative structures and the division of Africa, the complexity of African nationalism and the paradox between the coast of Africa and the African bush. In the end, he talks about the state of mind in which he performs his work as an anthropologist-filmmaker. Jean Rouch Keywords: AFRICA,NATIONALISM,RACISM