Ivory Coast 1

Listen to Ivory Coast 1, a 24-year-old man from Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 24

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 07/11/2000

PLACE OF BIRTH: Paris, France (but raised in Abidjan, Ivory Coast)

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Black/Sub-Saharan African

OCCUPATION: graphic designer

EDUCATION: bachelor’s degree

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born in Paris and lived in Lille, France, until age 3, when he moved to Ivory Coast. At the time of this recording, he had been living in Toronto, Canada, for one year.

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RECORDED BY: Mark Dallas

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/11/2024

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Basically, I was born in France. And, we should know that my father and my mother, um, are from Ivory Coast. And the fun fact is, I was born during a journey (holiday concert), because I was born in Charenton. Charenton is the place where we do concerts — big star concert. At, at 3 years old, I went to Ivory Coast because my father was there, so it was because I want that proximity with my father, so it was important for my mom and me to have this relationship, because they were not married. So, it was a choice for my, my good grow, my positive growing. And then I grew up. I met a lot of people, a lot of different people, and I was kind of comfortable child. It’s true that my mom worked a lot. So I didn’t spend a lot of time with her. I was kinda, mm, a loner because I’m an only-mama child, and I was living only with my mom. So, I often, um, go hang out with my, my father and his child.

After that, I grew up and I found that, um, this passion for, for art. Basically, my father was about to maybe, uh, put me into economics like him or political stuff, but I told my mom that maybe I’m good at soccer. But I’m very passionate about art. I like to draw. And when I was kid, I was kind of man that, if I don’t get something that I like, I make it. Like, I take my hand and maybe take some paper, and put something that I could enjoy it, instead of the things that I want, like, maybe Lego, maybe figurine and stuff.

So after that, I graduate high school. Mmm. And I told my mom that I’m an artist, and she saw that I’m an artist. Like, before, she gave me so many (punishments?) because I was only drawing and didn’t learnt about my lesson.

So after that, she finally understand, and she told my father that, OK, he will do economic stuff, don’t worry. And she did it for me.

After that, my advisor told me that you are good into graphics because, like, I did a website for showing my portfolio. So I start to do graphics, and I did love it. I start to edit video, to edit pictures, and start to do photography and stuff. After that, um, I went to Ivory Coast for holidays. So it allows me — it allows me to show my, my knowledge to my African people, to my Ivorian people. It was kind of experience for me, and it was very, very, very, very awesome and learnful to me.

[Subject speaks French]:

La Côte d’Ivoire en moi
Côte gaie, vague hospitalière et nourricière!
Ô ma joyeuse mer patrie, les corsaires veulent émacier
Ton avenante étendue. Ces carnassiers
Essaiment dans ton coeur l’ouragan, la furie meurtrière.

[English translation:
Ivory Coast in me
Cheerful coast, hospitable and nourishing wave!
O my joyful homeland sea, the corsairs want to emaciate
Your extended comeliness. These carnivores
Swarm in your heart the hurricane, the murderous fury.]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Mark Dallas

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/11/2024

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