TY - BOOK ID - 77944893 TI - Their champagne party will end! Poems in honor of Bate Besong AU - Ashuntantang, Joyce. AU - Tande, Dibussi. PY - 2008 SN - 1283198649 995671738X 9786613198648 9956717509 9956615722 9789956717507 9956558192 9789956558193 9789956558193 9789956615728 9956558192 PB - Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, DB - UniCat KW - Political poetry. KW - Cameroonian poetry (English) KW - Cameroon poetry (English) KW - English poetry KW - Cameroonian literature (English) KW - Poetry, Political KW - Poetry KW - Politics and literature KW - Politics in literature KW - Besong, Bate. KW - Nigeria KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77944893 AB - Bate Besong was Cameroon?s most vocal and controversial poet, playwright and scholar, who died in March 2007. The poems in this collection are a tribute to the man and his work, and provide a snapshot of the mood that prevailed after his death. Bate Besong ushered in a new kind of nationalist ?fighting? literature in Cameroon, unapologetic in its defense of Cameroon?s Anglophone minority and scathing in its denunciation of postcolonial African dictators and their foreign collaborators. These poems defy Bate Besong?s death by affirming that his impact as a writer lives on. 34 poems are included ER -