Camara Laye's L'Enfant noir is a classic autobiographical fiction of the French African experience in the modern world. The Focus edition is appropriate as an introductory text for French language courses in literature and culture. This edition, prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, includes an introduction (in French) to the author and the work, the complete novel with both linguistic and cultural notes (French-French), a current bibliography and questions in the AP format to facilitate study.