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, published originally in French in 2016 by Michel Lafon. 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.