LIVINGSTONE MUSEUM

You have to walk down a dirt street of dilapidated houses. The meeting between Livingstone and Stanley is marked by a memorial topped by a cross. Nearby, the explorer-doctor's house has been transformed into a pathetic little museum where everything recalls this famous episode: papier-mâché figurines, like naive paintings, courtesy of a local schoolteacher. Explanatory panels show a colonial vision of the period, underlining "the positive effects of the slave trade and the ivory trade"...