The poems in this collection are a snapshot of the mood that prevailed following the death, on March 8, 2007, of Bate Besong, Cameroon's most vocal and controversial Poet, Playwright and scholar. Bate Besong ushered in a new kind of nationalist "fighting" literature in Cameroon which is unapologetic in its defense of Cameroon's Anglophone minority and scathing in its denunciation of postcolonial African dictators and their western collaborators. These poems defy Bate Besong's death by affirming that his impact as a writer lives on.
March 2008
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