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My Kingdom for a Guitar

A Novel

Kidi Bebey author Karen Lindo translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:5th Oct '21

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My Kingdom for a Guitar is a novel based on the remarkable life of Cameroonian-born writer and musician Francis Bebey. Born in Douala, Cameroon, Bebey studied in Paris and New York. He found fame when his first novel, Le Fils d'Agatha Moudio (Agatha Moudio's Son), was published in 1967, and that fame continued to grow with the release of his first album in 1969. He would go on to become one of the best-known singer-songwriters of Africa, whose groundbreaking style merged Cameroonian makossa with classical guitar, jazz, and pop.

Narrated by Bebey's daughter, Kidi, My Kingdom for a Guitar is a tribute to her late father and his family. Through a combination of recollections and fiction, it offers the reader a chance to witness the admiration of a daughter for her father and the love of a man for his music.

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 *

Kidi Bebey's deep love of words and stories mean that poetry and fiction find a warm welcome in her book.

-- Caroline Trouillet * Africultur

ISBN: 9780253057853

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Weight: unknown

230 pages