Bate Besong

Flowing like a stream (In memory of Bate Besong)

By Ekpe Inyang

Materials
as building blocks
to make
the message crystal-clear
and safe for public consumption
must flow like a stream

Bad Boy

By Ekpe Inyang

Obasinjom warrior
Alias BB
Brave Boy
Bad Boy!?!
Tireless warrior

You intoned the tune
Of reformist chants
And charted the course
Of bad boys’ march

Bate Besong: The Family Remembers

BB's Wife and Children Interviewed by Elvis Tah (Culled from The Post)

Happier Times: Bate Besong and Family

Besong: The Man, His Ideas, His Vision And His Life

By Babila Mutia Bate

Prof. Babila Mutia fluting in tears to the tune of "lead kindly light"at BB's funeral

Besong was born on May 8, 1954 in Manyu Division, at that time called Mamfe, in the then Southern Cameroons. He attended Hope Waddell Training Institute in Calabar and later came to study at St. Bede's Secondary School in Ashing, Kom, where he obtained his GCE A Levels. He left Cameroon after his A Levels and went to Nigeria where he was admitted into the University of Calabar in the Department of English and Literary Studies.