A cause for celebration: the Aya series, Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie’s sparkling chronicle of youth and love in the Ivory Coast, is now fully available in English for the first time. Aya, Life In Yop City (Drawn and Quarterly, $24.95) and Aya, Love In Yop City (Drawn and Quarterly, $24.95) bring together the complete series in two gorgeous volumes. It’s the 1970s, the peak of Côte d’Ivoire’s brief era of peace and economic windfall. In Yopougon, a working-class suburb of the coastal jewel Abidjan, amidst a seemingly endless swirl of parties, discotheques, love affairs, friends, neighbors, and family, is nineteen-year-old Aya: calm, steady, studious, and dreaming of becoming a doctor. The Aya books are glorious graphic storytelling and vibrant glimpses of an Africa that most Westerners never see.