This article analyzes the rewriting of the Exodus myth in La Saison de l’ombre by Léonora Miano, who questions the presence / absence of a memory of the slave trade and slavery within sub-Saharan imaginaries. The Mulongo are compared to the Israelites, and the figures of Moses and Queen Abraha Pokou inform the characterization of two female characters, Emene and Eyabe. This dialogue between Biblical and African myths makes it possi ble to create a postmemory of the slave trade, which seems to confirm the therapeutic potential of myth. The author adds the Atlantic to the exodic triad, land, memory, culture, and turns La Saison de l’ombre into a site of transatlantic (post)memory. As a new Moses, the ethos of the novel symboli cally leads sub-Saharan imaginaries to the promised land of memory and remembrance of African resistance to the slave trade and enslavement.