Once, I bought a mysterious wooden figure in a junk shop, with a hole where his stomach should be and a rope tightly wound round his neck, and I’ve always wondered what he was. In the enchanting little Musée de Vodou in Strasbourg I find out: a Yorùbá medicine man.
Strasbourg is full of surprises, starting with the fact that you really don’t know whether you’re in France or Germany. That’s down to its history. After Louis XIV conquered Alsace in 1681, it became a French city, and after
