Une petite histoire de Norbert Zongo, alias Henri Sebgo

Timpousga, Kaboré (aka Timpous)

Illustrator country: Burkina Faso

Scenarist: Timpousga, Kaboré (aka Timpous)

Scenarist country: Burkina Faso

Language: French

Keywords: dictatorship; homicide; journalism; literature; police; politics

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Participated to Matite africane in Europa

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Published in: edited by S. Federici, A. Marchesini Reggiani, M. Repetti, Matite africane. Fumetti e vignette dall'Africa, Lai-momo, Sasso Marconi 2002

A little story of Norbert Zongo, alias Henri Sebgo – The story of the famous journalist Norbert Zongo. As a child Norbert writes a daily printed news update that is suddenly censured. When he grows up, he leaves to study journalism in Togo and gets put in prison by the police under the command of General Eyadema. The great Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma helps him to enrol at Yaounde University. When he goes back to Burkina Faso, he works as a journalist for several newspapers and later at the “Clef”, but he’s soon fired. He founds “L’Indépendant”, which becomes very successful thanks to its investigations. On December 13th 1993 he is killed together with three colleagues. No one will ever know what really happened that day.

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Technique: Felt tip pen on paper

Black and White

Original drawings

Year: 1999

Dimensions: 21 x 29,7 cm

Exhibited where: Exhibited in Bologna, Accademia di Belle Arti, Istituto Statale d’Arte, March 16 – April 30, 2002; Exhibited in Bruxelles, Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, June 3 – September 28, 2003

Inventory: inv. 492 / coll. CX4.BURKINA.TIMPOUS.2

Number of sheets: 3

Notes: One page on the top of recto: L'histoire de l'independant en B.D. pour Timpous - Two pages on verso: Timpous (Burk), Histoire de l'independant en BD, Mat. Af. 61-1 (2), cm 21 x 29,7, A&M