Adrienne Yabouza (born 1965) is a writer from the Central African Republic. She is of Yakoma heritage. She has written several novels and a book for children, a number of which were penned in collaboration with French writer Yves Pinguilly.Yabouza began writing when she was ten years old. As a young woman she fled the civil war in the Central African Republic and traveled to the Republic of the Congo; from there she fled to France, where she demanded political asylum. She never attended any institution of higher education. Although she later returned to her home country, she has continued to speak out against the political violence with which it has been plagued, including the 2013 coup d'état. Wikipedia