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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Recent Posts
- The Open Quarrel I Never Had With BB
- Fallen Man of Letters (A Poem for Bate Besong)
- A Candle for Bate Besong - Five Years Ago Today
- Homage to a Literary Colossus (Remembering Bate Besong Five Years After)
- Bate Besong or the Therapeutics of Laughter
- New Publication: To the Budding Creative Writer: A Handbook
- US Ambassador hosts Café Littéraire to Discusses Writer’s “Quest for Freedom and Social Justice”
- Bate Besong: The Silent Volcano
- Bate Besong: The Final Interview
- Obasinjom Warrior
BB Recommends
Patrice Nganang: Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (Caraf Books) (Paperback)
Gilbert Doho : People Theater and Grassroots Empowerment in Cameroon (Paperback)
Frances Harding : The African Performance Reader
(Including "The language of Anglophone Cameroon drama" by Asheri Kilo)Martin Banham (Editor) : A History of Theatre in Africa
(including "A note on recent Anglophone Cameroonian theatre" by Asheri Kilo)- Bate Besong: Change Waka & his man Sawa Boy
- Bate Besong: The banquet: A historical drama
- Bate Besong: Requiem for the last kaiser: (a drama of conscientisation and revolution)
- Bate Besong: Polyphemus detainee & other skulls
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