Ivorian literary activist, translator lends her skills to beloved graphic novel, ‘Aya de Yopougon’

Edwige-Renée Dro has translated the penultimate volume of a popular illustrated series about Aya, a young woman living in Cote d’Ivoire, into English to spread its feminist message.

Edwige-Renée Dro has translated the penultimate volume of a popular illustrated series about Aya, a young woman living in Cote d’Ivoire, into English to spread its feminist message.series by Marguerite Abouet and illustrated by Clément Oubrerie, has won readers around the world since the first volume was published

“I wanted to show that there are other forms of English that are Kenyan, Cameroonian or Ghanaian,” she says, adding that even she did not know how to translate certain words from the Abidjan slang, Nouchi, and had to ask friends better versed in it. … diligent about keeping “the West African feel but I didn’t want to go with the hegemony of Nigerian pidgin.

What she enjoys about the Aya series, which follows Aya and her two friends, Bintou and Adjoua, is that Abouet shows “that women are not a homogenous group. Bintou is a film star, Adjoua is letting the winds of life eat away at her, and Aya wants to be a doctor.”

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