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Their Champagne Party Will End!

Poems in Honor of Bate Besong

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Ashuntantang, Joyce B.

Tande, Dibussi

Langaa RPCIG, 2008
Livrel 76p.
(Poetry)
ISBN: 9789956717507
Bate Besong was Cameroon’s most vocal and controversial poet, playwright and scholar, who died in March 2007. The poems in this collection are a tribute to the man and his work, and provide a snapshot of the mood that prevailed after his death. Bate Besong ushered in a new kind of nationalist “fighting” literature in Cameroon, unapologetic in its defense of Cameroon’s Anglophone minority and scathing in its denunciation of postcolonial African dictators and their foreign collaborators. These poems defy Bate Besong’s death by affirming that his impact as a writer lives on. 34 poems are included from 30 poets.
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