Africa for what? The question seems obvious, but it really isn't. In areas as diverse as political, economic, academic and social, there is enormous ignorance about this region of the world, whose stereotyped images portray a continent lagging behind and absent from the crucial moments of global development. The scarcity of literature on the subject generates that information gaps are fed with  beliefs and myths. Those of us who have studied the African continent in Mexico normally see ourselves in the need to justify why and why this region should be incorporated into foreign policy approaches or university curricula.