About

Born in 1978, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Armand Boua’s work explores the poignant adversity of the human condition through his primary subject of interest—the children populating the streets of his birthplace and current residence. Abidjan, the country’s urban center and one of Africa’s fastest growing metropoles, is at the forefront of a rapidly industrializing African continent. This economic growth excludes and immiserates the lives of Abidjan’s street kids who survive at the confluence of dehumanizing forces - the urban violence and political volatility unleashed by impersonal winds of …