My Kingdom for a Guitar

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.

"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