Francophone writer Calixthe Beyala is well-known for her “literary indecency”. Her tendency to write about African women’s desire and sexuality has led critics to highlight the originality of her work, and to qualify her writing as a “poetic of the obscene”. Her novels have also led some critics and writers to call her a “pornographic author”, and a “scandalous writer” who is exploiting provocation as a strategy that pays off. Although Beyala is quick to brandish her “feminitude”, and to accuse her detractors of racism and sexism, posing herself as a victim, it is nonetheless useful to question the insistence in many comments on her gender identity and her origin. Indeed, whether perceived negatively or positively, her “indecent writing” is often judged based on the facts that she is a woman, and a woman of African origin. This article would like to explore these issues by revisiting the “Beyala affair”, and by analyzing what constitutes her “pornographic” writing.