Yop attack!
This week I am acquainted with a young lady who communicates by Ivorian bubbles interposed. And VO Ivorian please!
Aya Yopougon is the central character of a comic, in 3 volumes, which caused a stir at the festival of Angoulême BD, 2 years ago.
young Ivorian of 19 years, Aya lives in the neighborhood of Abidjan + populated Yopougon baptized or Yop City. It aims to prevent serious studies of the 3 C's trilogy rampant among teenage girls in the neighborhood: Hairdressing, Sewing and hunting husband. It is 78, lives in the neighborhood so carefree a time when my small business does not know (yet) the crisis: low unemployment, no AIDS, no more coups. The country is still what is called the "Ivorian miracle".
Actress Yopougon a rather joyful, Aya observes the world around them, this neighborhood and its mini-dramas that lend more to laugh.
Her friends, and Bintou Adjoua, much less serious, think only
gassed (live it up), running the genito
(young "cock", dragouilleur, a gambler bling) and going stir the
tassaba (I'll leave guess) in the bush
(restaurants discos).
dolce vita A somewhat unconscious, but their age, sometimes with consequences!
Adjoua will round out her belly as the days, and a question answer the question "who is the father?". The investigation starts and methods of investigation are the least original. Picture of the baby to support, parents will tour Adjoua young males in the neighborhood in search of a physical resemblance.
The backstory is that you just read a post-teen, his neighborhood, his family, his choices, buried under a ton of vitamins E and with laughter, and hands that can no longer block a page to jump into the lexicon end of the book.
But Aya is not just an African folklore with his campaigns and his proverbs very rough around the edges but the hi-currents. Aya is a young girl especially the third world, in a still relatively carefree time, determined in his choices, and juggling traditions, parents, social norms, to find its own way of life.
A beautiful soul and an Africa that debunks this view post-colonial condescension that we were banging at length JTs. So swallow in one go!
Aya also questioned me with his
Nouchi , somewhat the equivalent of an Ivorian Darija, you've had a taste a little higher. This slang language in real language, embodies precisely the influences of a country with strong roots, a former French colony, which drinks but also the news to invent words or phrases.
What gives, between a smile and wisdom:
Go talk to the UN that : Causes always, you interest me!
The eye that has seen slow to appreciate : one who has experience does not consider not in a hurry
Famous
If you take the path of I-me-crazy you'll find yourself at the village of if-I-su. This is not because the elephant has lost weight but the cat is fun to wear his underpants. Farot : Frimer with counterfeiting
Gaou : a person out, not trendy
Beko : kiss
If someone is
Goudri is that he is tipsy
Without turvy not the meaning that you know. It is used here to refer a girl to hold alluring, without type below. If
Pozy is that it's cool
And my favorite: D system to speak of Abidjan, it said "Abidjan is art!" ;)
Waiting for Santa Claus to receive the Chief volumes 2 and 3!
That said, the big screen version is in preparation (released in 2011, what to see come). Decidedly, Persepolis has created vocations.
