The actress Roukiata Ouedraogo and the designer Aude Massot publish “Ouagadougou in a hurry”. A comic book full of humor that takes us to Burkina Faso, in the middle of a whole gallery of colorful characters.
Roukiata Ouedraogo and Aude Massot publish a spirited album, funny and colorful, relevant and sassy, populated by characters all more endearing than each other. We meet a few more or less well-intentioned gossips, but also a few street vendors who are sometimes a little clumsy, or even a hairdresser who looks like a second mother, a chicotter father nicknamed “bad dog” and bicycle chicken braisers, with alongside an unlicensed taxi driver who runs on gas with the bottle on the roof of his car, and many other characters so human they are funny.
They all tell us a story: that of Roukiata Ouedraogo, who, in her maid’s room in the Parisian district of Château-Rouge, prepares her suitcase for her native country of Burkina Faso. Or rather his suitcases, because in such cases, we have to face the facts: we rarely travel light.
“Ouagadougou in a hurry”, by Roukiata Ouedraogo and Aude Massot, was published by Sarbacane editions.
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