Books
Here are some of the authors recent Books
A Bat Between Worlds
In A Bat Between Worlds, Frantz Batoh unfolds the extraordinary life of Mbady Ndonda, born amid storm and prophecy in the heart of Cameroon. Through the winds of colonial legacy and the dawn of independence, Mbady’s path leads him from ancestral rituals to modern classrooms, from the intimacy of tribal kinship to the vast anonymity of Western cities. His story becomes a mirror for every soul navigating between identities — African and Western, traditional and modern, rooted and restless. Batoh’s prose captures the pulse of history and the quiet ache of transformation, revealing that the greatest journey is not across oceans but within the human spirit.
Frantz Batoh
Bridging Worlds with Words
To You, My Son: A Memoir of Infant Loss, Grief, and the Love That Remains
There are five people in my family now.
But every night, I still reach for the sixth plate.
He left before I ever saw the color of his eyes. Before I ever heard his first cry. Before I could teach him how to throw a ball, or hold his hand the day he became a man. His name was JR, and his absence is the heaviest thing I have ever carried.
To You, My Son is not a book about the day a son died. It is about the ten thousand days that came after. It is about the haunting, beautiful, and unbearable reality of outliving your own child.
It is about the quiet ways grief infiltrates a house—in the space at the dinner table no one sits in, in the grocery store aisle where a mother’s laughter over a box of cereal brings a grown man to his knees. It is about the unanswerable questions that echo in the dark: Why him and not me? What would his voice sound like? How do I bury a son without burying myself alongside him? This is something only a parent can understand.
Une Chauve-Souris Entre Deux Mondes: Le parcours de Mbady à travers les cultures et les liens qu’il y tisse
Né dans une tempête et destiné à jeter des ponts entre les cultures, Mbady grandit sous le poids des attentes sur ses frêles épaules. Il avance à travers les difficultés de la vie au village, de l’identité et de la tradition. Il fait face à une autre tempête, plus discrète que les moqueries, les murmures et la douleur d’être différent accompagnent. Dans une société où on juge la masculinité selon des règles strictes et où on définit la maternité par la fertilité, ceux qui ne rentrent pas dans le moule sont souvent ridiculisés ou mis à l’écart. Une chauve-souris entre deux mondes montre les cruautés silencieuses du harcèlement dans les communautés et même envers soi-même. Il faut du courage pour les surmonter tout en gardant sa dignité, son amour et sa foi.