Just days before it was announced that he had been awarded Africa's most prestigious award for poetry, the Tchicaya Utamsi award, Niyi Osundare was in Buea, Cameroon to take part in the inaugural EduArts Awards for Cameroonian Literature in English. In this excerpt, Osundare reminisces about the late Bate Besong, Anglophone Cameroon's most militant poet/playwright who was his student at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
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