Élodie VEBOUA

Elodie YEBOUA is a young Ivorian author born on February 10, 1998 in Tabagne, in the city of Bondoukou. Currently in her final year of high school at Lycée Moderne 2 in Bondoukou, she is passionate about reading and a member of the literary club "Les Amis du Livre" at her school.

In 2018, Elodie YEBOUA won the 3rd edition of the "Serge Grah Literary Contest" with her suspenseful, pathetic, and sometimes shocking narrative, entitled "Les larmes de Carène" (Carène's Tears). This story tells the life of two twelve-year-old girls, Carène and Diamila, who despite the traditions that hinder girls' education, manage to attend primary school in Koboko, their hometown. But their future is threatened when Carène becomes pregnant in school and is forced to marry.

With this story, Elodie YEBOUA denounces the practices of pregnancies in school and forced marriages, which break the lives of young girls and compromise their future. She expresses with great sensitivity and realistic depth the harmful consequences of these practices on young girls and the need to fight them. "Les larmes de Carène" is a cry of the heart that testifies to Elodie YEBOUA's commitment to defending the rights of girls and their education.