Africa 2025 does not claim to know Africa will be like tomorrow. The objective is to expore possible futures for sub-Saharan Africa. More than a thousand Africans, in 46 countries, women and men, anglophane and francophone, and from very different backgrounds, were involved in this exploration. They first determined the status quo in Africa at the dawn of twenty-first century, and then they constructed four scenarios for the next 25 years.