Arsène Koffi was born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1990, in Sakassou, capital of the Baule kingdom in central Côte d'Ivoire.
The young man spent part of his childhood and adolescence with his grandparents. "My grandmother didn't have any grandchildren with her, so she asked me to come and help her," he says.
When he wasn't at school, Arsène did all the chores his grandmother asked him to do: shopping, household work, and working in the fields…