Title: Aya de Yopougon
First published: 2005
Description: Aya has captured the hearts of North American readers of all ages for the rare portrait it paints of a vibrant, happy, bourgeois Ivory Coast in the 1970s, based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. Not only is Aya complemented with Clement Oubrerie's gorgeous artwork, but the volumes also offer a slice of life peek into African culture: complete with recipes, glossaries, and wardrobe instructions for turning one's pagne (brightly colored fabric) into a skirt, head wrap, or baby carrier.
Subjects: Comic books, strips, Comic books, strips, etc, Teenage girls, Social life and customs, Junge Frau, Conduct of life, Children, Social conditions, Alltag, Aya (Personnage fictif), Bandes dessinées, Adolescentes, Mœurs et coutumes, Comics & graphic novels, general, Manners and customs
Places: Côte d'Ivoire