Adrien Absolu and the missing from Joola

Portrait of the writer Adrien Absolu.

He publishes "Les disparus du Joola" with editions JC Lattès Credits: Olivier Culmann

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The writer Adrien Absolu publishes Les disparus du Joola with editions JC Lattès.

A literary autopsy on one of the greatest maritime tragedies in history.

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On September 26, 2002, an overloaded ferry - which left Ziguinchor in Casamance to reach the Senegalese capital Dakar - turned in less than 10 minutes off the coast of The Gambia.

18 years later, the memory of the sinking of the Joola continues to haunt the Senegalese.

Adrien Absolu tells the story of the sinking, but which is also the sinking of an entire system.

This journalist and writer - who works for the Agence Française de Développement - has been exploring and writing Africa for years.

Four years after

, which recounted the Ebola epidemic in Guinea, here is

which offers a literary burial to the victims.

The novel was published by JC Lattès editions.

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went to Calais, to the Museum of Fine Arts, to visit an exhibition devoted to the work of Jeanne Thil, famous for having painted the light of the Mediterranean and the warm colors of North Africa.

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