The present study on the topic "Imagination and thematic reality in the African novel: a new vision to African novelists" aims to show the limitation of the contribution of the African literary works to the good governance and development process of African countries through the thematic choices and to propose a new vision in relation to those thematic choices and to the structural organisation of those literary works. The study is carried out through the theory of narratology by Genette (1980) and the narrative study by Chatman (1978) as applied to the novels by Chinua Achebe, essentially on the notion of order by Genette and the elements of a narrative by Chatman. It is a thematic and structural analysis that helps the researcher to be aware of the limitation of the contribution of African fiction to the good governance of African States and their real development, for the reason that themes and the structural organisation of those works are past-oriented. In such a context, readers are supposed to decode the different messages so as to put forth the necessary behaviour from the depicted ones. But, when one compares the literary effort of the novelists with the actual positive change, one realises that the gap is still obvious. This brought the researcher to the proposal of a new thematic orientation that does not depict societal misbehaviour but rather builds an ideal society in which the character embodies what the African society should be, African society which is here our particular concern so as to be able to make up the challenge of globalisation. This is not to deny the "fictionality" of the novels, but to reinforce it with stories that are not only past-oriented. This change may constitute a new source of attraction for African future literary works.

Africa is almost fully known for the great number of its local languages, number diversely appreciated by natives and non-natives, mainly researchers in linguistics. Some take the great number of local languages in individual countries as a handicap to national language use whereas others consider it as a cultural prosperity. Today, the question is about the real linguistic needs for Africa to start science transmission in them for competitive and sustainable development. The researcher believes that African development cannot be effective and sustainable without scientific acquisitions and applications of its own. The present paper aims to discuss the needs through which African languages could be used to conduct instructions and scientific researches. The results of the study show that some effort started with functional literacy classes in rural areas with limited contents and that today, with formal learners from universities in local language literacy classes, the main condition along with linguistic policies is lexical needs to express new cultural realities and conduct scientific writing in local languages as they try them in western languages.