Covering the entire area of the Comoé National Park and its surrounding towns and villages, this map is a celebration of the regions’ biodiversity and its vast expanses of tropical savannah. Here, cultural landmarks surround The Comoé, this ecologic
The map is also a study into the Koulango people and others that inhabit the area to the south, and to some extent, the Lobi cultures to the east. Names and phrases in local dialects, English and French, merge with painted and drawn elements.
It has two insert maps. One of the Research Station itself and one of Kakpin, a town to the south of the park that collaborates with the station. It tracks the two previous locations of the town, its principle sites and sacred places.
This work was created at the Comoé Artist Residency, 2019 in collaboration with Erik T Frank (ecologist, photographer and director of the Research Station) and Camille Lavoix (journalist writer, and historian). It uses Koulango language which up
The Comoé National Park is a Biosphere Reserve, UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest protected area in West Africa. It ranges from the humid Guinea savannah to the dry Sudanian zone, and is one of the most bio diverse savannahs in the world. T
A special thanks to Camille Lavoix and Erik T Frank for their invitation and collaboration, also to the European funders that they represent at the Comoé Research Station; Macline Hien; Mamoudou Bolly, the OIPR (Park Ranger) and the local people.
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