One land, one author: in Ivory Coast with Yaya Diomandé, winner of the “Voix d'Afriques” prize
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Yaya Diomandé, first winner of the “Voix d'Afriques” prize.
© Pierre René-Worms / RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
30 mins
Yaya Diomandé, born in 1990, lives in Abidjan.
After higher education, he worked as a translator-interpreter before creating an online journal Investissements +.
He is the first winner of the “Voix d'Afriques” literary prize, created by RFI and the J.-C. Lattès editions with the support of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris for his novel
Abobo Marley.
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Cover of the first literary prize Voix d'Afriques.
© JC Lattès
"Moussa is a" balancer "on a gbaka in Abidjan, a van which every day makes the connection between the municipality of Abobo and the Adjamé shopping center. Hanging on the door, he crisscrosses the city. But he sees almost nothing. of what surrounds him. His dreams are elsewhere. He has carried them since his childhood in the district of Marley. Moussa wants to go to Bengue, in Europe. Whatever the price to pay, he wants to leave, and that his success there- bas benefits his people here. He will be a shoe shiner, apprentice mechanic, taxi driver, rebel soldier, gang leader, before raising enough money and attempting the adventure. For what life? "
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JC Lattès editions
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