14 ans, Saka Kant quitte son village et la forge familiale sans autre bagage que sa curiosit pour le monde. Durant dix ans, il sillonne l'Afrique pour gagner l'argent qu'il souhaite envoyer sa famille. Un soir, intrigu , il s'inscrit un cours de fran ais. Il d couvre peu peu sa passion pour le savoir et n'a plus qu'une id e en t te crire.
Au fil des ann es, cet app tit pour la langue ne cesse de cro tre au point qu'il d cide de devenir crivain et de traverser la M diterran e pour s'en donner les moyens. C'est par le r cit m me de son pop e qu'il r alise son r ve crire son premier roman. Les pas du cam l on retrace cette extraordinaire odyss e.
At 14, Saka Kant left his village and the family forge with nothing but his curiosity about the world. For ten years, he traveled across Africa to earn money he wanted to send back to his family. One evening, intrigued, he enrolled in a French class.
He gradually discovered his passion for knowledge and had only one thing on his mind: to write. Over the years, this appetite for language continued to grow until he decided to become a writer and crossed the Mediterranean to make it happen. It is through the very telling of his epic journey that he realizes his dream: to write his first novel. *The Chameleon's Footsteps* recounts this extraordinary odyssey.