Sankie Maimo (1930 – 4 September 2013) [1] [2] was a writer from British Southern Cameroons. Maimo moved to Ibadan, Nigeria, where he worked as a school teacher. There, he founded the journal Cameroon Voice in 1955.

Sep 14, 2013 · Sankie Maimo, one of the foremost English speaking writers in Cameroon, has died. He died on September 4, 2013 at the St. Elisabeth hospital Shisong in the Northwest Region of Cameroon – a monumental loss for Cameroon Anglophone literature.

Jan 13, 2024 · Sankie Maimo, who has died, aged 83 from stoke after ten years of paralysis, was a leading Cameroonian writer. His early works portrayed the tension between African traditions and the colonial project of modernity. His first work of fiction entitled I am Vindicated (1959), was published while he was living in Ibadan, Nigeria.

Sankie Maimo lived in Nigeria from 1949 to 1962 and like a number of Cameroonian writers who have also published poems in Nigerian and Ghanaian journals without acknowledgement of their nationality, has more than once been been mistaken for a …

Dec 4, 2007 · Four Cameroonian dramatists - Sankie Maimo, Marcel Mvondo II, Charles Nyazze and Victor Elame Musinga were recently honoured for their contributions to Cameroon drama. The memorable ceremony that held at the Congress Hall in Yaounde was organised by the International Theatre Festival Of Cameroon, RETIC to crown its annual theater festival.

Sep 17, 2013 · En 1959, Sankie Maimo (né en 1930), publie le premier recueil de fiction connu écrit par un Camerounais anglophone. I am vindicated est édité aux Presses Universitaires d’Ibadan (Nigeria).

According to Tande Dibussi, Sankie Maimo was one of the foremost English-speaking writers in Cameroon and his death is "a monumental loss for Cameroon Anglophone literature."

Sankie Maimo (1930 – 4 September 2013) na pesin wey dey rait and e kom from British Southern Cameroons. Maimo move kom Ibadan, for inside Naija, wie e wok as skul ticha. Na for die e …

Aug 29, 2021 · En 1959, Sankie Maimo (né en 1930) publia " I am vindicated ", le premier recueil de fiction connu, écrit par un écrivain camerounais anglophone, à Ibadan University Press.

(1935– )Cameroon playwright and fiction writer, the most important figure in English-speaking drama in the country. His first play, I Am Vindicated (1959), was written while he was a teacher ...