Books by Clement Oubrerie
“Aya and her friends grow up in a big city. Côte D’Ivoire was pretty wealthy at the time, at least in the urban areas. But the main character in this story are working class. They go out, they go to dances. One of them gets pregnant. It’s an incredible imagining of these things. When Marguerite Abouet wanted to write about her life, she was really inspired by Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, which is perhaps the best-known classroom-friendly graphic history of all (even more so than Art Spiegelman’s Maus, which is getting banned in the US now). Although Marjane Satrapi comes from Iran, she was living in France, and she created a very French-style comic.” Read more...
The Best Comics on African History
Trevor Getz, Historian
Pablo
by Clement Oubrerie & Julie Birmant
Picasso’s Head of a Woman at Tate Modern, a raw portrait of his lover Fernande Olivier, seems infused with their passionate relationship. Here was another goddess and early inspiration. For the graphically inclined, Pablo – from SelfMadeHero’s brilliant Art Masters series – is a mammoth graphic novel which beautifully recounts Picasso’s early years as told by Olivier, who as a model shared his Montmartre garret in the years before Cubism.
Interviews where books by Clement Oubrerie were recommended
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Crossroads: I Live Where I Like
Koni Benson, André & Nathan Trantraal (Illustrators), Ashley Marais (Illustrator) -
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Aya
Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie (illustrator) -
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All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa
by Richard Conyngham (editor) -
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Madame Livingstone: The Great War in the Congo
by Barly Baruti (illustrator) & Christophe Cassiau-Haurie -
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Kariba
by Daniel Clarke, Daniel Snaddon & James Clarke
The Best Comics on African History, recommended by Trevor Getz
The Best Comics on African History, recommended by Trevor Getz
Graphic narratives can be a great way to learn history but they need to be both good history and good comics. That’s a combination that can be hard to find. Trevor Getz, a professor of history at San Francisco State University, picks out his top comic books on African history.
