It’s all fun and games, until the consequences creep in. In the working-class neighborhood of Yopougon, there are few secrets and fewer private spaces, but Bintou and Adjoua mange to sneak away with their boyfriends and hoodwink their respective parents. The titular Aya is an endearingly level-headed nineteen-year-old who dreams of being a doctor, but her two friends Bintou and Adjoua would rather party, and focus their energies on finding rich husbands. Īya chronicles the the lives of three post-adolescent girls in Abidjan (the capital city) in 1978.
Aya, a graphic novel by Marguerite Abouet (illustrated by Clement Oubrerie), was published in France in 2005 the English translation was published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007. My second read for the Global Women of Color challenge is my first ever book set in the Ivory Coast, and it’s a charmer.
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