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Timpousga, Kaboré (aka Timpous)

Illustrator country: Burkina Faso

Scenarist: Timpousga, Kaboré (aka Timpous)

Scenarist country: Burkina Faso

Language: French

Keywords: drought; migration; poverty; work

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Participated to Africa e Mediterraneo Award 2005-2006

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Published in: edited by S. Federici e A. Marchesini Reggiani, Africa Comics 2005-2006, Lai-momo, Sasso Marconi 2006 ISBN: 978-88-89581-23-0

Because of droughts and poor harvest, Amado decides to leave his own country, the Burkina Faso, and try his luck in the Ivory Cost. Here Amado is welcomed by a few relatives and finds a job in a cocoa and coffee plantation. Forty years later, he is now wealthy and has created a large family together with a girl from the Ivory coast. In September 2002, however, there is a big uproar and all the people from Burkina Faso are kicked out and sent home; so Amado returns to his own country, where he is forced to start everything from scratch. He now regrets not having invested in his home land.

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Technique: Felt tip pen on paper

Black and White

Original drawings

Dimensions: 21 x 29,7 cm

Inventory: inv. 554 / coll. CX4.BURKINA.TIMPOUS.3

Number of sheets: 4

Notes: Each page on verso: Kabore Timpous, 2006/DU 37