28 December 2008
Country: Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa Author: Marguerite Abouet (& Clement Oubrerie) Review: This is the continuation of the story started in Aya, about the three friends from Youpougon, the working-class neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire of the 1970s, three fairly ordinary young women in a working class neighbourhood (Youpougon, in Abidjan), and their teenage lives. The first book [...]
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11 September 2008
Country: Ivory Coast Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa Author: Marguerite Abouet (& Clement Oubrerie) Review: Yes, yes, another coming of age novel. But I had to think about this one, because (a) it’s not All About Me, and (b) it’s a graphic novel. It’s about three young women in the Ivory Coast Côte d’Ivoire of the [...]
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