In Ghost Africa (1934), the Dakar-Djibouti scientific mission registration book directed by France in Africa between 1931 and 1933, the writer Michel Leiris expressed his bitterness for having participated in what he described as a sacrilege, a complete incursion under the appearance of science. Beind the “urgency of safeguarding the traces of the cultures that disappear by contacting the colonizers and the modern world,” according to the ethnologist Marcel Griaule, who directed the expedition, all the media were justified for the 3,200 Methnicless Trocess objects, elders of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris.
The loot is now found in the Musée du Quai Branly -Jacques Chirac, which is partial that exhibits it to the public as of April 15, this time, with a unique approach: objects have reexamined by African specialists. In 2020, the Parisian establishment decided Mersault’s research (2013), a novel that provides a name, an identity and almost a voice for the dead Arab in Camus’ The stranger (1942).
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