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At the carnival of Bissau the kalash’ shifts from the rather concrete instrument of liberation to
the instrument of symbolic reconquest, amid all the other reconquered symbols -beginning
with Frantz Fanon’s « white masks. » Jean Genet’s The Black, Rouch’s Maîtres Fous spring to
mind, but also James Ensor and Breughel, in short, more than could ever be evoked by the
carnival of Nice or any other.