Café Littéraire with Jesse Sahbi, 10.30am at Alliance Française SF

You’re warmly invited to a very special Café Littéraire with Ivorian writer Jesse Sahbi, creator of the comic The 12 Zeerbeez World Champs 2026, a joyful story about unity, soccer, and friendship that follows the Zeerbeez characters at the world’s biggest sporting event.

📍 Where: Alliance Française San Francisco
🗓 When: 10:30 AM

We’ll be talking about:

• Jesse Sahbi’s unique journey as a creator from Côte d’Ivoire now in San Francisco.
  
• The 12 Zeerbeez World Champs 2026, a comic that blends sport, culture, folklore and global togetherness.
  
• What makes this comic exciting for football fans and culture lovers alike ⚽📖
  

Come for the coffee, stay for the stories and community!
See you there! 🎉

Pour en savoir plus...
Jesse Sahbi was born and grew up in a village of Barata in Cote D'ivoire (Ivory Coast) West Africa. With his band (Jess Sah Bi & Peter One), he traveled to many West African countries and filled stadiums in the cities of Bouake, Daloa, Man in Ivory Coast, Ouagadougou, BoBodioulasso in Burkina, Bamako in Mali, Lome in Togo, and Cotonou in Benin. In the United States Jesse held concerts in cities: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Silver Spring, Raleigh, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Atlanta and at Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
Since moving to the Bay Area Jesse Sahbi performed in many venues and events: weddings, schools, churches, conferences, and San Francisco Public Libraries.
Jesse Sahbi has experiences as an instructor teaching African music to kids in Philadelphia PA, Orlando FL, Baltimore MD, Newark NJ, San Francisco and Oakland. Jesse Sahbi is a recording artist, singer, composer, and Cartoonist. He plays several African instruments (Djeme, Kolon, Pkete, Balafon (xylophone).

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