![]() ![]() They gossip, they try to win beauty pageants, they run businesses, they go to work in the city and fight with their relatives in the village, and above all they fall in and out of love. The characters in Aya have serious problems, but they aren’t plagued by war and famine and disaster. During the 1970’s, the Ivory Coast experienced an economic boom and a lengthy period of political stability, and this is reflected in the optimistic and enterprising tone of the story. She wanted to counter the stereotype of Africa as a place that is monolithic and disastrous. ![]() Abouet grew up in the 1970’s in the Ivory Coast, and she wanted to write something that would show readers that Africa is not a continent on which nothing but awful things happen. Aya of Yop City is a series of graphic novels by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Clement Oubrerie. ![]()
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