Bate Besong

One Day in the Life of Ekinneh Agbaw-Ebai

Being a response to Agbaw-Ebai's "In Defence Of Egbe Tabi"

There is always a certain amount of reduction in any attempt to simplify, schematize or paraphrase complex historical encounter and the study of Re-Unification is especially vulnerable to such problems on account of the CNU/CPDM prolonged tenure and impact on all aspects of national life over the past 45 years.

It is however useful to remind ourselves that neo-imperialism has not been an identical process in different parts of the conquered territory, but everywhere it has locked the people of Southern Cameroons origin into the most complex and traumatic relationships in history.

Toothsome Pearls of Rogue Daemons: A Short Survey of Tanure Ojaide’s "The Fate of Vultures & Other Poems"

By Bate Besong, Ph.D

Tanure Ojaide’s The Fate of Vultures & Other Poems provides one of the most iconic synthesis of elements from a variety of modes of poetic composition thereby lending credence to Funso Aiyejina’s pioneering scholarship “Recent Nigerian Poetry in English: An Alter- Native Tradition” (1988) in the following terms:
"The shift from the obscurantism and eurocentricism of most of the first generation of modern Nigerian poets to the preoccupations of the present crop of poets, whose focus as well as literary antecedents are more indigenous than foreign, can be said to have signalled a much desired alternative tradition."