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1. At 24, published Polyphemus Detainee & Other Skulls (Scholars Press 1980) and launched by Professor Chinua Achebe, on the 26th April, 1980, at Calabar University, Nigeria.

2. Laureate of M.S.F. Award for Literature and Culture.

3. Patron Publishing House Certificate for Artistic Excellence.

4. 1992 Cameroon Post Literary Man of the Year Award. Received commendations/gifts from the Director of the American Cultural Centre, Hilton Hotel, Yaounde.

5. Literary Editor Cameroon Life Magazine

6. UNIFAC 2001, University of Dschang: Appointed Trainer in Theatre by the Vice-Chancellor, University of Buea.

7. Directed and produced Wole Soyinka’s A Play of Giants at Amphi 250 on the eve of the 1999/2000 Convocation. His Excellency Jean Marie Atangana Mebara was Guest of Honour.

8. Participant at the FENAC COLLOQUIM of The Dialogue of Cultures & Peace: The Cameroonian Model. Paper presented: “Arion Resurgent: Beyond Cultural Narcissism”

9. World premiere Production of “Once Upon Great Lepers” on the 18th May 2000 at Amphi 250 with a capacity crowd of over 800 spectators. Event received widest publicity in the national and international media.

10. Editor: Oracle: A Journal of Poetry from Universities Ed. T.C. Nwosu Best Twenty Oracle Poets. London: Three Continents Press, 1983.

11.Associate Editor The Mould, University of Yaounde I.

12.On the cover page of Centre Stage Africa, University of Ibadan: Also featured Chinua Achebe, Wole Ogundele, Ola Rotimi, Femi Osofisan (March, 1993) etc.

13. Keynote Address Speaker on the occasion of the first Anglophone Literature Conference, 18th-21st January, 1993 held at the Goethe Institute, Yaounde under the auspices of Bayreuth University RFA/ Germany in association with the University of Yaounde, Cameroon.

14. Celebrated in West Africa: The Power of Bate Besong. Nos. 4148, 5-11 May, 1997.

15. Won the Association of Nigerian Authors (A.N.A) Literature (Drama) Prize during the conferment of the Triple Eminence Award to Wole Soyinka, Presiding Chairman Ken Saro Wiwa, November, 1992.

16. Featured in Nigerian Theatre in English: A Critical Bibliography by Professor Chris Dunton (Hans Zell: Sydney, Melbourne, London, Toronto) 1999.

17. Bernth Lindfors “Response to Dunton on Bate Besong” Journal of Commonwealth iterature, XXX/1, 1995, pp. 107-108

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I am short of words. Truely I enjoy your style, your every thing. Those great memories about you when I was in the the university of Buea always come back to me when ever i read your writing.Permit me comment about one of those interviews over Cameroon Calling. You told the world and those who cared to listen that your writings may not be too usefull now as some complain but with time they will. Like Shakespare, his writings were rejected untill after he died,and several years later his literature came to command the English world.
Courage dear brother, you are a big time scholar.

Posted by:Takha Eyenni Nelson | May 16, 2005 at 06:57 AM

Your site will remain an inspiration to many.I have learned a lot from your web site.You stand tall to challenge several other scholars.With such a rich site and an outstanding scholar like you, many will find the joy to study.Courage Brother and may Dr.Bate Besong never go to sleep.

Posted by:Takha Eyenni Nelson,745.85.69 | May 16, 2005 at 07:31 AM

Doc,
Just to tell you that your profile is perfect.I envy you soo much. You are a source of inspiration to many of us youths. May God Bless you and crown your efforts with success.

Posted by:Fogu Edwin Fotoh | December 04, 2006 at 07:37 AM

Doc i am sorry i had to know you much when you where just about to die.But remember that where ever you are we the youths will never forget how great you where and you words will continue to make change in our lives.

Posted by:NYAMBI BETHRINE | March 21, 2007 at 05:39 AM