Presented as part of the High Museum of Art’s “MAKING AFRICA” exhibition. The two filmmakers will reflect on the inspiration and motivation for their recent projects following a screening of Gomis’ latest film, “Félicité” (2017).Īdditionally, Marguerite Abouet will hold book signings at the High Museum of Art and the Little Shop of Stories in Decatur. Widely lauded in France and abroad, the inaugural volume Aya won the Angoulême International Comics Festival First Comic Book prize in 2006, and the collection has been translated into 17 languages.Īs part of France-Atlanta, Abouet, who is also a screenwriter and director, will participate in a discussion with French-Senegalese director Alain Gomis on the importance of film and the visual arts for creating an accurate and dynamic depiction of life in contemporary West Africa. Illustrating Africa | Encounters with Graphic Novelist Marguerite Abouetįrench-Ivorian graphic novelist Marguerite Abouet reflects on the success of her critically acclaimed graphic novel series, “Aya of Yop City”, and the role of the visual arts in African self-representation.Ībouet’s graphic novel series, “Aya of Yop City” (2005), follows the adventures of 19-year-old Aya and her friends as they come of age in the suburbs of Abidjan during the late 1970’s.
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