Un mariage dans la douleur

Ngassu, Daniel Severin

Illustrator country: Cameroon

Scenarist: Ngassu, Daniel Severin

Scenarist country: Cameroon

Language: French

Keywords: city; family; forced marriage; traditions; woman condition

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Participated to Africa e Mediterraneo Award 2005-2006

Sad wedding – Fatou studies in New York and goes back to Dakar to visit her family. Her dad tells her she will have to marry her cousin but she says she wants to decide herself whom to marry. Her father forces her, using violence. If she had known, she wouldn’t have gone back.

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Technique: Ink and tempera on paper

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Original drawings

Dimensions: 21 x 29,7 cm

Inventory: inv. 388 / coll. CX9.CAMEROON.NGASSU.4

Number of sheets: 4

Notes: The first page on verso reports the Author's name and country, and 2006 TL 25 - Each page on verso: TL 25 - The last page on verso reports the Author's name