TY - BOOK ID - 77943740 TI - The Obasinjom warrior PY - 2014 SN - 9956792985 9789956792986 9956792012 9789956792016 9789956792016 1322320217 PB - [Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] DB - UniCat KW - Authors, African KW - African literature KW - African authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Besong, Bate KW - Besong, Bate. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - African literature (English) KW - English literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943740 AB - On March 8, 2007, one of Cameroonís foremost scholars died in a ghastly traffic accident barely hours after launching his most forthright and acerbic collection of poems: Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus. Dr. Bate Besong was a social activist, a critic, troubadour, and playwright; an avant-garde, steeped in the tradition of the absurd, who fought against the corrupt system of governance that transmuted Cameroonians into a comatose and apathetic citizenry neutered by fear engendered by the workings of an existing Gestapo. For the first time, Emmanuel Fru Doh has gone beyond an analysis of B. ER -