Bate Besong

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bate Besong
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	May 8, 1954(1954-05-08)
Age	70
Date Of Death	March 8, 2007, Edea, Cameroon
Birthplace	Mamfe
Country	Cameroon
Birth City	Southwest Region
Horoscope	Taurus

Bate Besong Biography

Bate Besong is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 8, 1954 in Mamfe, Southwest Region, Cameroon.

In 1992, shortly after his play Beasts of No Nation was staged, Besong was kidnapped and tortured by state security agents who took him to an unknown location from where he was later released when news of his kidnapping became public. In 1992 he won the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Prize for Requiem for the Last Kaiser. Besong later obtained a PhD in Literary Studies from Calabar (Nigeria).

Bate Besong (1954–2007) was a Cameroonian playwright, poet and critic, who was described by Pierre Fandio as “one of the most representative and regular writers of what might be referred to as the second generation of the emergent Cameroonian literature in English”. He died on March 8, 2007 in a car accident on the Douala-Yaounde highway.

Bate Besong Net Worth

Bate Besong is one of the richest Writer from Cameroon. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bate Besong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After obtaining his GCE A Level at St. Bedes Secondary School in Kom, Besong was admitted to the University of Calabar where he published his maiden collection of poems titled Polyphemous Detainee and Other Skulls in 1980 before he graduated. While at the university, Bate Besong and Ba’bila Mutia founded Oracle, a journal of poetry edited by students. Realising that his emerging reputation as a budding writer was giving him recognision as a Nigerian and compromising his Cameroonian identity, Besong returned to Cameroon after completing his MA. He was a lecturer at the University of Buea, where he taught from 1999 right up to his death in 2007.

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Benny Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Cameroon. Bate Besong celebrates birthday on May 8 of every year.