Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s Aya: Face the Music is the latest volume in their popular graphic novel series about a savvy teenage African girl in 1980s urban Côte d’Ivoire and an endearing agglomeration of her family, friends, fellow students, and local officials. Now in college, Aya is a student organizer caught in a campus protest turned violent; her party-girl buddy Bintou is a local celebrity, playing a reviled homewrecker on a hit TV show; and her close friend Albert, a closeted gay man, has been abducted by his father in hopes that a village healer can “fix” his sexuality. That’s just for starters! In this 7-page excerpt, Bintou and Aya learn of Albert’s plight—he’s stranded in the countryside, teaching a few kids to read, and trying to figure a way to escape and return to the city. Aya: Face the Music by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie is out now from Drawn & Quarterly.