I had the chance, during my training in African history, to be Jean Boulègue’s pupil. First in DEUG, when he taught the history of Africa prior to the 19th century, in the form of judicial classes; then bachelor, where he spent a full semester of amphitheatre courses and focused work on Islam in sub-Saharan Africa; then master and DEA, where, in duo with Bertrand Hirsch, he started the search by giving us the...