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.
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