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Johnnie MacViban
Johnnie MacViban (born 1955) is a Cameroonian journalist, poet and novelist educated in the International School of Journalism and the International Communication Institute, Montreal (Canada). Life and career As a news analyst, he has worked with Cameroon Tribune and Cameroon Radio Television and was incarcerated on 26 July 1986 alongside Sam Nuvalla Fonkem and Ebssy Ngum for airing over the radio a story on multi-party politics titled ''The Enemies of Democracy'' on Cameroon Calling. They were later released five months later in November of the same year. In 1994, he won the Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry for the National Library of Poetry and his novel ''A Ripple from Abakwa'' was shortlisted for EduART's Jane and Rufus Blanshard Award for fiction. Bibliography * ''An Anecdoted View''. Yaounde: Subsidy, 2004. * ''An Anecdoted Patchwork''. Garoua: Subsidy, 2006. * ''The Makuru Alternative''. Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 2007. * ''A Ripple from Abakwa''. Bamenda: Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area ''Rio dos Camarões'' (''Shrimp River''), which became ''Cameroon'' in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |