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Francis Bebey, the Cameroonian-born writer, guitarist, and composer, was one of the bestknown singer-songwriters of Africa. My Kingdom for a Guitar is a novel based on his life, his exile from his home country in Paris, and his passion for music.
The novel is narrated by his daughter, who was born in 1961 and grew up in the only African household in her Parisian neighborhood, speaking Douala at home and French in school. Kidi Bebey's tribute to her late father and his family is a combination of recollections and fiction, where the reader witnesses the admiration of a daughter for her father and the love of a man for his music.
About the author
Kidi Bebey is a French journalist and writer. She is the author of several children's books.
My Kingdom for a Guitar is her first novel and was published originally in French in 2016.
Karen Lindo is a scholar of French and Francophone Studies, currently teaching and translating in Paris. She is translator of three other books in the Global African Voices series:
The Heart of the Leopard Children,
The Silence of the Spirits, and
Concrete Flowers, all by Wilfried N'Sondé.
Summary
My Kingdom for a Guitar is a novel based on the life of Cameroonian-born writer and musician Francis Bebey. Narrated by Bebey's daughter, Kidi. IUP's Global African Voices usually sell well.
