Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"A wonderful translation of a gentle and yet poignant fictionalized (auto-)biography of the intensely creative Cameroonian musician, poet and critic Francis Bebey. This family saga, narrated by his daughter, Kidi seamlessly merges its descriptions of a uniquely cosmopolitan Paris in the 1960s and 1970s and an African country's struggles to move beyond the colonial experience."--Pim Higginson, University of New Mexico
"Without a shadow of a doubt, Kidi Bebey has inherited from her father, Francis, the famous Cameroonian musician who passed away in 2001, a visceral attachment to creativity, to the arts, to what makes us human."--Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux, Le Monde, reviewing a previous edition or volume
"Kidi Bebey's deep love of words and stories mean that poetry and fiction find a warm welcome in her book."--Caroline Trouillet, Africultures, reviewing a previous edition or volume