Felix Faure Street (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826500489)

Ken Bugul is the pen name of Senegalese Francophone novelist Mariètou Mbaye Biléoma. In the Wolof language, her pen name means "one who is unwanted." Since the 1982 publication of her first book, Le baobab fou, a semiautobiographical work in which she confronts her own experiences with immigration, racism, exploitation, sexuality, and substance abuse, Bugul has published ten more novels, each of which takes on an array of pressing social issues in West Africa and beyond.

Julie Huntington is a college professor and literary translator who lives and works in New York City. She has taught courses in language, literature, film, translation, and pedagogy at campuses in France, Ghana, and the United States. She is the author of Sounding Off: Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels.