Calixthe beyala nous sommes
Les heroines de Beyala sont toutes des enfants de 1'Afrique post- coloniale Le petit prince de Belleville, "Nous sommes ici chez nous" (13)/ "we are at.!
In an argu- ment between two clients, a man and a woman, over who arrived first at her doorstep, she sides with the man: “Ce n'est pas parce que nous sommes.
Calixthe Beyala
Cameroonian-French Novelist
Calixthe Beyala (born 1961) is a Cameroonian-French writer who writes in French.
Biography
A Cameroonian author and member of the Eton people, Calixthe Beyala was born in Sa'a to Cameroonian parents.
Her aunt and grandmother were particularly strong influences on her development, and she grew up listening to her grandmother's stories. Stories from which she drew inspiration and used to motivate her to work hard toward the creation of a meaningful career.[1]
Beyala was educated at the École Principale du Camp Mboppi in Douala and went on to study at the Lycée des Rapides à Bangui and the Lycée Polyvalent de Douala.
She eventually won a scholarship to study in Paris at the age of seventeen, where she through a strong academic performance obtained a baccalaureate.
After a few years in Spain she published her first book, C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée, at the age of 23 and eventually chose to become a full-time writ
