Bate Besong

Biography:

Bate Besong is a Cameroonian playwright poet and critic who obtained a PhD in Literary Studies from Calabar and was described by Pierre Fandio as “one of the most representative and regular writers of what might be referred to as the second generation of the emergent Cameroonian literature in English. In 1992 he won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for Requiem for the Last Kaiser.