Aboudia took up his art studies at the conservatory in Abengourou, eastern Ivory Coast, before graduating to the Technical Arts Centre of Bingerville in the Abidjan suburbs. Even then “Aboudia ...

Aboudia took up his art studies at the conservatory in Abengourou, eastern Ivory Coast, before graduating to the Technical Arts Centre of Bingerville in the Abidjan suburbs. Even then "Aboudia was ...

With his paintings of Ivory Coast's street kids, Aboudia has taken his teenage misfit mutiny to the very top, becoming one of the world's bestselling artists along the way. "When I was a teenager ...

His life story as much as his subject matter invites comparisons with African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat: both "found themselves alone in the street, but knew how to profit from it", ...