Mr. Adrien Delmas is the director of Jacques Berque Center for Human and Social Sciences (Rabat). A historian and archeologist, he is associate researcher at the Institute of African Worlds (CNRS, France) and was director of the French Institute in South Africa from 2012 to 2016. He is at present the main coordinator of the Globafrica ANR Program, Reconnect Africa, XIth-XVIIth centuries.XIe-XVIIe siècles.