BB: A Select Bibliography

(A) PUBLICATIONS: ACADEMIC

Essays

________ 1993: Literature in the Season of the Diaspora: Notes to the Anglophone Cameroonian Writer’ Nalova Lyonga, Bole Butake, Eckhard Breitinger (ed) Anglophone Cameroon Writing. Bayreuth: RFA/Germany. 5 – 18.

________ 1997: “Who’s Afraid of Anglophone Theatre “I & II”. London: West Africa, 7 – 3 July pp 1106 – 1107, 14-20 July 1146.

________ 2001: “The Limits of a Manichean Vision and the Egoist Hero in Post Colonial Bourgeois Theatre”: Epasa Moto: A Bilingual Journal of Language and Literatures. University of Buea. Vol. 1. No. 479 – 98.

________ 2002: “Ontogenesis of Modern Anglophone Cameroon Drama and its Criticism: Excursus”: VOICES The Wisconsin Review of African Languages and Literatures. University of Wisconsin 1414 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Drive, Madison, W1537306 Vol. 1 No. 5 1-19.

________ “ L’Ecrivain est mort: Alas, Poor Ferdinand (Son Excellence Leopold Oyono)’ USA: ALA Bulletin A Publication of the African Literature Association. Vol. 28 No. 2 Spring 119-124.

WORK IN PROGRESS/AWAITING PUBLICATION

1. ‘New Engagements in Cameroon Literature: the other side of the Bridge’ (ALA BULLETIN, USA)

2. Lest we forget an Ancestral Combattant: David Mandessi Diop (1930-1962)

3. Before a Cameroonian Rwanda: Critique on Piet Konings and Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: The Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (Review Essay)

4. The failure of the Modern Aesop in Anglophone Drama: The Example of Hansel Ndumbe’s Eyoh’s The Inheritance (WEKA II ed. Professor Bole Butake)

5. Colonizing the Stage: The Early Theatre of Bole Butake (Revue internationale des arts, lettres et sciences sociales ed. Professor Edmond Biloa)

6. The Writer May Now Take Pride In His Subversion. The Ofeimun Glasnost in Cameroon Writing (ed. Professor Onookome Okome, University of Alberta, Canada)

7. Drama and the Jinx of Despair: Ba’bila Mutia’s Before This Time, Yesterday (in Roselyne Jua, Bate Besong, Henry Kah Jick, Asheri Kilo (ed) Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Cameroon Drama: 1980 to the Present

(B) PUBLICATIONS: CREATIVE WORK

________ 1980: Polyphemus Detainee & Other Skulls (poems) With a Foreword by Professor Ime Ikiddeh. Ibadan: Scholars Press.

________ 1987: The Most Cruel Death of the Talkative Zombie (a faery play in three parts with a revelry at a requiem). Limbe: Nooremac Press.

________ 1991: Obasinjom Warrior With Poems after Detention. Limbe: Alfresco Publishing House, Norfolk.

________ 1991: Requiem for the last Kaiser (a drama of conscientization and revolution). Nigeria: Centaur, ISB N. 978-2316-113. (Presbook Edition: 1998)

________ 1994: The Banquet (a pageant). Nigeria-Makurdi: Editions Ehi, ISB N. 978-2177-04-0 (Cased).

________ 1997: The Grain of Bobe Ngom Jua. USA Bellingham W.A: Camnexus ISBN 0965576132.

________ 1998: Just above Cameroon (Selected Poems 1980-1994). Limbe: Presbook.

________ 1999: “Just above Cameroon: For Alexandre Biyidi” U.S.A ALA Bulletin: A Publication of the African Literature Association. Vol. 25 Summer No. 3 39-41

________ 2003:, Change Waka & His Man SawaBoy: Yaounde: Editions CLE. ISBN 2-7235-0143-4

________ 2003: Three Plays (The Achwiimgbe Trilogy) Yaounde: Editions CLE, ISBN 2-7235-0182-5

Forthcoming:

a) Requiem for the last Kaiser in Anthology of Cameroonian Drama (ed) Emmanuel Ngwang (American Edition) USA Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press.

b) Requiem for the last Kaiser (American Edition) University of Southern California, 840 Childs Way, 3rd Floor, Los Angeles, California 90089-2540

c) “Emanya-nkpe: New Collected Poems” (Work in Progress)

INTERVIEWS
1. Anglophone Cameroon Literature at the Cross Roads: An interview with Dr. Bate Besong, By Dr. Pierre Fandio, Research Group on Africa and Diaspora Imaginary/GRIAD in Africultures, Paris (forthcoming 2004)

2. BATE BESONG: Why Literature Does Not Thrive in Cameroon” with Professor Okome Onookome in Times Review of Ideas and Arts DAILY TIMES OF NIGERIA (DTN) 5 December, 2001

CITATIONS IN ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
1. Who’s Who in Africa (Third Edition) with a Preface by the Rt. Hon Archbishop Desmond Tutu Ed. Raph Uwechue.

2. Encyclopaedia of African Literature (Routledge: London, New York, Canada, 2003) Entries on Bate Besong by Professor M’Bare N’gom, Morgan State University, 1700 E. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, USA

SELECT CRITICISM ON BATE BESONG
1. Ambanasom, S.A. Education of the Deprived: A Study of Four Cameroonian Playwrights Yaounde: University Press, 2003.

__________. “Is Bate Besong’s Poetry Too Difficult for Cameroonians’ in Abioseh Michael Porter. ed. ALA
Bulletin. Vol. 28 Summer/Fall. 2002 Number 3.4 pp. 43-51.

2. Ngwane, George. Bate Besong or the Symbol of Anglophone Hope. Limbe, Nooremac, 2001

3. Nyamndi George. ‘Requiem for the Last Kaiser: A Promethean Reading” in Abioseh Michael Porter (ed) USA ALA Bulletin 2003 pp. 118-132.

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