Johnnie MacViban

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).

Johnnie MacViban
Born1955 27 July
OccupationWriter, Poet, Journalist and Teacher
NationalityCameroonian
GenrePoetry, Fiction, Journalism
Literary movementModernism, Postmodernism

Life and career

As a news analyst, he has worked with Cameroon Tribune and Cameroon Radio Television 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
  • An Anecdoted View. Yaounde: Subsidy, 2004.
  • An Anecdoted Patchwork. Garoua: Subsidy, 2006.
  • The Makuru Alternative. Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 2007.
  • A Ripple from Abakwa. Bamenda: Patron Publishing House, 2008.
  • The Mwalimu’s Reader (A Collection of Critical Journalistic Essays). Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011.

Essays and articles
  • “Low Ebb for Cameroon Cinema" Bakwa magazine, December 2011.

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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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