Macron’s reckoning for France’s history in Africa may be too late
As skulls of Algerian resistance fighters are finally sent home, China, Russia, the Gulf states and Turkey are already in Africa, cash in hand
14 October 2020 - 14:44
Paris — The severed heads of the resistance fighters were displayed in a market square first. Then they were shipped back to private collections in Paris. For decades, they were boxed up in a museum basement and finally, this July, Emmanuel Macron sent them home.
As the Algerian military transport taxied to halt, the country’s leader, the chief of the army and a Muslim cleric lowered their eyes and 24 coffins draped with green, white and red of their national flag were carried across the tarmac...
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