Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian and French writer , born in
1961 in Cameroon in the shawnty town of New Bell. She is the author
of The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me, her debut novel published in 1988
when she was in her tweenties.
Black Canon, like a shot across the bow, is a literally show that showcases writers from the African diaspora, the beauty and pain in their work, their struggles,, in a tentative to bring African literature back to America and restore a glory lost due to centuries of migrations.