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 The ''Cameroon Tribune'' is a major newspaper in Cameroon. It is also available online. It is owned by the government. It was founded in 1974 by the '' Societé de Presse et d'Editions du Cameroun'' (SOPECAM). The French version became the only dai ...

and

Cameroon Radio Television Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) is a major radio and television broadcasting company in Cameroon. CRTV is a government-controlled radio and television service in Cameroon. It started as Cameroon Television (CTV) and later merged with the radio ...

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 ''Eduart'' is a 2006 Greek drama film directed by Angeliki Antoniou. It was Greece's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also entered into the 29th ...

'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: Patron Publishing House, 2008. * '' The Mwalimu’s Reader (A Collection of Critical Journalistic Essays)''. Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011. *'' Twilight of Crooks''. Yaounde: Bakwa Books, 2021.

Essays and articles

*“Low Ebb for Cameroon Cinema" Bakwa magazine, December 2011.

References

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