Aya from Yopougon is back. Aya is this comic book heroine who lives in a working-class neighborhood of Abidjan. Since 2005, the volumes of this comic book series, imagined by the author Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Clément Oubrerie, have sold more than 900,000 copies. Last year, the seventh volume ended with Aya’s arrest; organizer of a demonstration against living conditions at the university. Volume 8 has just been published by Gallimard.
Marguerite Abouet: “I am inhabited by several characters in my head, I am my characters”
