Bate Besong

ELEGY FOR TWO STUDENTS ASSASSINATED ON CAMPUS (to Gilbert Forlem and Aloysius Embwam: In Memoriam)

By Bate Besong

Although the University of
Buea Congregation, condemns
violence on unarmed students, many
an evil genius from its fettered
Senate,escape
its scarlet clutches,

in fact many are iodoform-violent
Glory be to their Chancellery!
They can kill-for-office, yet 
Would proclaim

on Convocation Day
that they won the Mahatma
Gandhi prize,Even
Before Madiba-Noble Soul-
graduated from Robben Island.
Polibureau members do not always win the battle

The Anglophone-Francophone Marriage and Anglophone Dramatic Compositions in the Cameroon Republic

By Hilarious N. Ambe, Ph.D.

[Originally published in Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a ‘Post’-Colonial World. By Peter M. Marsden & Geoffrey V. Davis, eds. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2004, P.71-80]

Let me begin with the following anecdote, which throws some perspective on some of the issues discussed in this paper.

Quite recently, I was at a conference in Leipzig, and during one of the coffee breaks, I found myself in a conversation with a group of other participants. When I introduced myself as a Cameroonian, two of the persons in our little group exclaimed, almost at the same time: "Ha! Roger Milla! Football!" I simply nodded with a grin, somehow proud that almost a decade after Cameroon's ace football striker—Roger Milla's wonderful performance at the World Cup Football Finals in Italia 90, my country was still being remembered and praised.