DETOUR:

 

African market signs: Until Fofana made them his springboard, one came across them by luck alone.

• "My parents brought it back from a trip to Africa," says the doctor whose office this sign adorns: 

• "These canes were part of the assortment of a collector who had lived in Africa," an antiquarian explains:

La Galerie Jantzen 

18 rue de Beaune,7th

• "I found them when cleaning out an attic in Alsace," the founder of the bookstore across the street from Maison Château Rouge acknowledges:

La Régulière

43 rue Myrha

To my knowledge, aside from his shop such signs appear by calculation only in a restaurant whose decor Fofana created:

Another Soul Restaurant in Paris (Baba Soul, 10th),

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