La saga ivoirienne dessine par Clment Oubrerie est salue par la critique et rencontre un succs considrable. Elle signe en 2005 Aya de Yopougon 1, qui remporte le prix du Premier Album au festival d'Angoulme. It's a quick piece of work, but memorable in mood, capturing the country's brief flicker of postcolonial peaceful prosperity before descending into the modern maelstrom of corruption and violence we know only too well.(Feb. Ne Abidjan, dans le quartier de Yopougon, Marguerite Abouet arrive Paris l'ge de douze ans. Yop City, as detailed in Oubrerie's fluid and cartoonish black and white drawings, is a mellow place where disco rules the night and practically the worst thing these girls have to worry about is the disapproval of their parents\x97or in the case of the quiet title character, criticism from those who wish she were more boy-crazed and less focused on a career. Set in 1970,Aya follows the travails of some teenage girls in the peaceful Abidjan working-class neighborhood of Yopougon (which they call ""Yop City, like something out of an American movie""), as they strive for love and the right boyfriend. But inAya, Abouet, along with Parisian artist Oubrerie, does quite a bit more than that, spinning a multifaceted romantic comedy that would satisfy even without any political agenda behind it. Abouet could have just wanted to tell a sweet, simple story of the Ivory Coast of her childhood as a counterpoint to the grim tide of catastrophic news, which is all most Westerners know of Africa.
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