POUR UNE RECONNAISSANCE AFRICAINE

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Images in the service of an idea: Albert Kahn (1860-1940) and Aupiais father (1877-1945). This book traces, with the words and image, the courageous journey of a missionary of the Society of African Missions of Lyon, more broad-minded than his time. The Reverend Francis preaches Aupiais indeed, facing the West imbued his superiority, for a cause then considered by many sulphurous: the rehabilitation of black people, the rehabilitation of the way … In 1925, he created a Porto-Novo historical-ethnographic magazine “African Recognition”. At the same time he learned ethnology. His journey leads him to cross Albert Kahn, the banker–philanthropist and funds entrusted him a mission that allows the father to deliver sustainable record of daily life, particularly local religions through photography and documentary film, felt as authentically “objectives”. Thus, Francis Aupiais bring this country (now Benin) images that Levy Bruhl, expert in the field, and the scientific community of the time deem unique. They make us relive today intact, the emotion of a different look, attentive and open a universe that Aupiais father knew precisely perceive as a wholly civilization by allow us to go walk-in the realities of Dahomey 1930.