Song for Mumu

Song for Mumu is the debut novel of Jamaican-born writer Lindsay Barrett. Written between April 1962 and October 1966 while the author lived in Frankfurt, Germany, Paris, France, and Accra, Ghana, it was published in 1967 by Longmans in London, England, where Barrett participated in readings alongside writers associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement.

Set on an unnamed Caribbean island, Song for Mumu is characterised as "an allegorical novel of desire, love, and loss". It was favourably noticed on publication by such reviewers as Edward Baugh and Marina Maxwell (who respectively described it as "remarkable" and "significant"). It has also been called "a stylistic masterpiece of modern black fiction".