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Loulou Dédola is a French novelist, comic book writer and documentary filmmaker, born on 1 May 1967 in Lyon's 2nd arrondissement. He is also a singer-songwriter in the band RCP which has been active in the Lyon area, as well as in Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria, since the late 1980s.

Biography
Loulou Dédola was born in Lyon in 1967. He is the second youngest of 9 children and comes from a family of Italian and Cypriot descent. He started his first band, Bob Radar et les Mythes Errants as a teenager. Although he was born in Lyon, he grew up in the suburbs, particularly in Vénissieux's Les Minguettes, where he launched the band.

He is a comic book writer, documentary filmmaker, novelist and musician. His novel 419 African Mafia was published in 2009 and describes the unlikely romance between a young musician from Lyon and a prostitute of Nigerian origin. The novel was adapted as a comic book in 2014, the same year 419 directed by Eric Bartonio and starring Richard Bohringer was released.

He appeared in the programme Spécial Investigation: French Connections - Au cœur des nouvelles mafias, in a section on criminal networks from Nigeria, broadcast for the first time in January 2013. During a stay in Nigeria, Loulou learnt Nigerian pidgin.

In 2016, Jeu d'ombres is published. It's a dramatic comic book set against the backdrop of Lyon's suburbs and in which the author and illustrator, Merwan, denounce how some politicians embrace communitarianism for electoral expediency.

Le Père turc: À la recherche de Mustafa Kemal, published by Glénat in 2018, recounts the struggle of Afife, who in order to prevent his nephew Mehmet from becoming radicalised, introduces him to Kemalism and to his country of origin.

2019 saw the publication of Fela back to Lagos, his first collaboration with cartoonist Luca Ferrara. This comic book examines the life of the Nigerian singer and politician, Fela Kuti, creator of the Kalakuta Republic.

In 2021, two new comic books were published. The first, Vendetta, La Vengeance des Oulianov, put forward the idea that Lenin had ordered the assassination of Nicholas II of Russia and his family to avenge the death of his own brother, Alexander, executed by the Tsarist regime in 1887.

The second book published the same year, Le Combat du Siècle, recounts Joe Frazier's journey from his childhood in the American South to the eponymous fight against Muhammad Ali which took place on 8 March 1971 at Madison Square Garden, New York. The fight also symbolises the ideological confrontation between Muhammad Ali who believed in Nation of Islam theories and communitarianism, and Joe Frazier's egalitarian vision.

Comic books

 * 419 African Mafia, publisher: Ankama Editions, penciller: Lelio Bonaccorso - colourist: Claudio Naccari, 2014, ISBN 978-2-35910-356-4
 * Jeu d'ombres, publisher: Glénat Editions, colour: Merwan Chabane
 * 1) Gazi !, 2016, ISBN 978-2-33102-436-8
 * 2) Ni ange ni maudit, 2017, ISBN 9782331025648
 * Père turc (Le) À la recherche de Mustafa Kemal, colour: Lelio Bonaccorso, publisher: Glénat, 2018, ISBN 978-2-344-01849-1.
 * Fela back to Lagos, colour: Luca Ferrara, publisher: Glénat, 2019, ISBN 978-2-344-02569-7
 * Le Sarde, colour: Lelio Bonaccorso, Glénat, 2021, ISBN 9782344022894
 * Combat du siècle (Le), colour: Luca Ferrara, Éditions Gallimard, Futuropolis, 2021, ISBN 978-2-7548-2541-2
 * Vendetta, la vengeance des Oulianov, colour: Lelio Bonaccorso, publisher: Steinkis, 2021, ISBN 9782368464106
 * Il était une fois en Jamaïque, penciller: Luca Ferrara, colorists: de Luca Ferrara & Gloria Martinelli, Éditions Gallimard, Futuropolis, 2023, ISBN 978-2277216988.

Manga

 * Rap Game, script: Loulou Dédola, illustration by: Massimo Dall'oGlio, Futuropolis, June 2023, ISBN 9782754829755.

Novel

 * 419 African Mafia, 314 pages, publisher: Tribal Editions, in 2009, ISBN 9782359120059

TV documentary

 * Spécial Investigation : French Connections - Au cœur des nouvelles mafias, directed by: Jérôme Pierrat, Barbara Conforti.

RCP

 * Funky Reggae Party (1993)
 * 1. Factory
 * 2. Rien que pour toi
 * 3. Funky Reggae Parti
 * 4. C'est une époque difficile
 * La banlieue chante (2003)
 * 1. Elle
 * 2. Superstar
 * 3. Bâtiment H
 * 4. I'm down
 * 5. Où est passé mon ami ?
 * 6. In my broken english
 * 7. Tonight
 * 8. Face
 * 9. Rien que pour toi
 * 10. Bienvenue
 * 419 (2011)
 * 1. L'art et les dollars
 * 2. Party Time
 * 3. Lagos
 * 4. N'Guessan
 * 5. Baby Cool
 * 6. Sweet Nigeria
 * 7. Vibrez Les Subs
 * 8. Trust Me
 * 9. 419
 * 10. Superstar

Awards

 * Prix BD Bulles d'Océan de Rochefort, 2021-2022.