In his preface, Ivorian journalist and writer Venance Konan describes the history of the Voulet-Chanoine column (July 1898-July 1899) as ‘a terrible and true story that is not taught anywhere, either in France or Africa’, before concluding: ‘All Africans should know it’ (preface, p. 2, T. 1). The purpose of this two-toman cartoon is to highlight a particularly violent episode of the colonisation of West Africa. On...