L’essentiel

Edoa, Christian Stéphan

Illustrator country: Cameroon

Scenarist: Edoa, Christian Stéphan

Scenarist country: Cameroon

Language: French

Keywords: family; human trafficking; marriage; slavery

PROJECT:

Participated to Africa e Mediterraneo Award 2007-2008

The essential – A stingy family man decides to sell his daughters in exchange for a lot of money. The first daughter to be sold rises up against it: she stops eating, she gets whipped and she finally agrees on getting married. She dies while having her first baby and her father is arrested for human trafficking.

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Technique: Pencil

Color

Original drawings

Dimensions: 29,7 x 42 cm

Inventory: inv. 278 / CX7.CAMEROON.EDOA.3

Number of sheets: 1

Notes: The second page on the bottom part of recto has a pencil drawing of a lying down man