Abstract
Both Camus and Sembene wrote to expose a legal system that unjustly punishes outsider, the other: in L'Etranger, Meursault deviates from society's norms and must be punished for it; in Le Docker Noir, Diaw Falla is a man of color who presumes to achieve social and political equality with whites, and for this reason, he too must be punished. In neither case is justice served disinterestedly: Camus was writing from a moralist-humanist perspective, and his anti-capital-punishment message was meant to be applied universally; Sembene was seeking more specific social and political reforms for Africans: for both writers, French judicial system was symptomatic of French society and its attitudes as a whole.
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