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by Faustin Titi (Illustrator), Eyoum Nganguè (Author), André Naffis-Sahely (Translator)
The protagonist of An Eternity in Tangiers is a teenager named Gawa, who leaves his native city, the imaginary West African capital of Gnasville, hoping to find a better life in Europe, where he hopes to escape the turmoil of his home country. Following a journey fraught with dangers and betrayals, Gawa is stranded in the Moroccan city of Tangiers, just in sight of his final goal, where he begins to tell his story, one now familiar to hundreds of thousands. Ivorian illustrator Faustin Titi and Cameroonian journalist Eyoum Ngangu tell this contemporary story from an African perspective, offering an intimate account of one of the great sociopolitical tragedies of our time.
Author Biography
Eyoum Ngangué is a Cameroonian journalist and anthropologist who now lives in exile in Paris. One of the country's leading investigative journalists during the 1990s, Ngangué was jailed for exposing political corruption and was subsequently granted exile in France in 1998. He is one of the co-founders of the Journalistes Africaines en Exile association. He currently works as the culture editor for the French magazine Pélerin.
Faustin Titi is an Ivorian artist who graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts of Abengorou. He has contributed to several Ivorian magazines and newspapers. He was awarded the Africa e Mediterraneo Prize for his graphic project, 'The Cop of Gnasville', which dealt with the theme of corruption. He lives in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. André Naffis-Sahely's first collection of poetry is The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017). His translations from the French and Italian include works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Rashid Boudjedraand Tahar Ben Jelloun. His book Beyond the Barbed Wire: Selected Poems of Abdellatif Laâbi (Carcanet Press, 2016) received a 'Writers in Translation' award from English PEN.
