Popular African Comic Books

Find comic books written by authors from Africa for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (3)

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Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie EN

Rating: 5 (4 votes)
Country: Africa / Ivory Coast flag Ivory Coast
Description:
"Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It's essential reading." -Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The Rabbi's Cat Ivory Coast, 1978. It's a golden time, and the nation, too-an oasis of affluence and stability in West Africa-seems fueled by something wondrous. Aya is loosely based upon Marguerite Abouet's youth in Yop City. It is the story of the studious and clear-sighted nineteen-year-old Aya, her easygoing friends Adjoua and Bintou, and their meddling relatives and neighbors. It's a wryly funny, breezy account of the simple pleasures and private tr... continue


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My Sister, the Serial Killer : A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite EN

Rating: 4 (56 votes)
Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
Description:
"Slasher meets satire in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends"--