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Bate Besong
Bate Besong (1954-2007) was a Cameroonian playwright, poet and critic, who 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".〔http://www.africultures.com/php/?nav=article&no=3510〕
==Life and career==
After obtaining his GCE A Level at St. Bedes Secondary School in Kom, Besong was admitted to the University of Calabar where he published his maiden collection of poems titled ''Polyphemous Detainee and Other Skulls'' in 1980 before he graduated. While at the university, Bate Besong and Ba'bila Mutia founded Oracle, a journal of poetry edited by students. Realising that his emerging reputation as a budding writer was giving him recognision as a Nigerian and compromising his Cameroonian identity, Besong returned to Cameroon after completing his MA.〔http://www.batebesong.com/2004/08/bb_creative_and.html〕
In 1992, shortly after his play ''Beasts of No Nation'' was staged, Besong was kidnapped and tortured by state security agents who took him to an unknown location from where he was later released when news of his kidnapping became public.〔Babila Mutia, Summit Magazine, N0 20,June 2012〕 In 1992 he won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for ''Requiem for the Last Kaiser''.〔Joyce B. Ashuntantang. Landscaping Postcoloniality: the Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2009.〕 Besong later obtained a PhD in Literary Studies from Calabar (Nigeria).〔Simon Gikandi, ed. Encyclopedia of African Literature. New York: Routledge, 2003.〕
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