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Plot- or character-driven? A mix Strong character development? It's complicated Loveable characters? It's complicated Diverse cast of characters? Yes Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes Content Warnings Content Warnings Graphic: Classism, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment. Experience the award-winning series about independent young women growing up in s Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast,
Aya
In this post, we explore Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s (Drawn & Quarterly). Aya: Life in Yop City is a novel that is loosely based on Abouet’s life and centers around year old Aya, her friends, and their families in the Ivory Coast working class suburb of Abidjan in the s. Welcome to Using Graphic Novels in Education , an ongoing feature from CBLDF that is designed to allay confusion around the content of graphic novels and to help parents and teachers raise readers. In this column, we examine graphic novels, including those that have been targeted by censors, and provide teaching and discussion suggestions for the use of such books in classrooms. Aya
Aya: Life in Yop City is a powerful tool in that Abouet allows her story to be a game-changer. Throw out whatever stereotypes about Africa you had before you sit down to read this novel. I guarantee you'll have a greater respect and admiration for the continent and its people after you experience all that this graphic novel has to offer you. Analysis of Aya: Life in Yop City. By Anonymous November 10, Using Graphic Novels in Education
Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet’s youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It’s wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. We visit them for a period of about eighteen months over what was originally issued as three separate graphic novels: Aya , Aya of Yop City and The Secrets Come Out. Those books each provide around a hundred pages of story, but this combined version is the better buy for several reasons. Aya
Aya is about three girls in the 70's as they each go through their own journeys, but also how they help each other along the way. It's a good read about the awakening of feminism and sexuality. I like comics like this a lot: a glimpse into another culture made especially rich by the blending of word and art. The action largely revolves around the antics of the main trio on the cover: Adjoua, Aya and Bintou. Comic Book Review
Teenage pregnancy, being gay, religious scams, prostitution, and sexual coercion, the books don’t shy away from the difficulties of life in the Ivory Coast. But these issues aren’t presented to make the country seem uncivilized or desperate for outside help. . 
Aya
Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted year old Aya, her easy-going friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private troubles of everyday life in Yop City. .
Aya Life in Yop city – Allegra Ayida
Aya Life in Yop city by Marguerite Abouet Aya is a graphic novel with the story by ivorian Marguerite Abouet and artwork by Clément Oubrerie. It is based on the author’s childhood in Abidjan in the s. This was a golden era of stability in Ivory coast. .