Co-wives, Co-widows

Bangui, Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows of Lidou. Following their husband's sudden and unexplained death, they find themselves fighting tooth and nail for all that is important to them. A playful, bittersweet, story full of dry wit and local colour, set against a backdrop of political instability, corruption and the friction between the old and the new.



Adrienne Yabouza was born in Central African Republic in 1965. After fleeing the civil war with her five children in 2013, she gained political asylum in France. She is self-educated, and did a variety of jobs before working as a hairdresser for many years. She now dedicates herself to writing fiction for adults and children, in Sango, Yakoma, Lingala and French. Co-épouses, co-veuves was published in Mali in 2016 and is her second novel for adults to be published in French.