Johnnie MacViban

Johnnie MacViban
Born 1955
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 CRTV and was incarcerated on 26 July 1986 alongside Sam Nuvalla Fonkem and Ebssy Ngum for airing over the radio a story on multi-party politics titled The Enemies of Democracy on Cameroon Calling. 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 A Ripple from Abakwa was shortlisted for EduART's Jane and Rufus Blanshard Award for fiction.[4]

Bibliography


Essays and articles

References

  1. Index On Censorship: Volume 15, Issue 10, 1986
  2. Johnnie MacViban. The Mwalimu's Reader.Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011
  3. Ann Arbor Review of Books:1.7, 2013
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-04-26. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
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