Johnnie MacViban
Johnnie MacViban | |
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| Born | 1955 27 July |
| Occupation | Writer, Poet, Journalist and Teacher |
| Nationality | Cameroonian |
| Genre | Poetry, Fiction, Journalism |
| Literary movement | Modernism, Postmodernism |
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 and for airing over the radio a story on multi-party politics titled The Enemies of Democracy on . They were later released five months later in November of the same year.[1][2]
In 1994, he won the Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry for the National Library of Poetry [3] and his novel was shortlisted for 's Jane and Rufus Blanshard Award for fiction.[4]
Bibliography[]
- . Yaounde: Subsidy, 2004.
- . Garoua: Subsidy, 2006.
- . Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 2007.
- . Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 2008.
- (A Collection of Critical Journalistic Essays). Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011.
- . Yaounde: , 2021. ISBN 978-1-7337526-3-3[5]
Essays and articles[]
- “Low Ebb for Cameroon Cinema" Bakwa magazine, December 2011.
References[]
- ^ Index On Censorship: Volume 15, Issue 10, 1986
- ^ Johnnie MacViban. The Mwalimu's Reader.Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011
- ^ Ann Arbor Review of Books:1.7, 2013
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Twilight of Crooks by Mwalimu Johnnie Macviban: 9781733752633 | Bakwabooks.com: Books". Bakwabooks.com. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
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