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.