Francis Bebey

Biography

Francis Bebey (1929–2001) was a Cameroonian guitarist, novelist and UNESCO broadcaster from Douala who pioneered African electronic music in Paris home studios. His 1970s experiments, collected on 'African Electronic Music 1975–1982', fused sanza and pygmy flute with early synthesizers. He died in Paris in 2001. His son Patrick Bebey is also a musician, and the early electronic experiments are now reissued and sampled worldwide.