Cameroon: Eduarts Awards Slated July 18
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The Post (Buea)
17 July 2008
Posted to the web 17 July 2008
Walter Wilson Nana
The maiden EduArts Literature Awards, an initiative of Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang, Lecturer at the University of Connecticut, USA, will take place on Friday, July 18, at the Capitol Hotel, Buea.
EduArts, a non profit US based organisation, was created to promote arts as an educational tool."Some of our activities include scripting plays, shooting films for awareness, organising diversity programmes for elementary school kids and launching the English speaking Cameroon literary competitions.
We're in the business of educating the public through arts and any art goes; fine arts, creative or performing arts," Dr. Ashutantang said."One of our objectives is to educate Africans on African issues. Our spheres of operation are both the US and Africa. We are also interested in celebrating the literature of English speaking Cameroonians.
I expect that this award ceremony will put Cameroonian English literature on the table of international literature. We'll also bring closer to the Cameroon public some literary works like that of Ngongkum's Walls of Agony, which won the Bate Besong Award for poetry, Mathew Takwi's On Their Knees, Tears of Rich and others," she said.
According to Ashuntantang, their intention is to bring attention to English speaking Cameroonian literature. "We have to boost writers to keep on going, push forward the publishing industry in Cameroon or any other African country and encourage others to join the competition in January 2009 when it will be launched."
Amongst the highlights of the awards night will be Cameroon's music legend, François Misse Ngoh, dramatic performances by Joyce Ashuntantang, Victor Elame Musinga, and a special appearance by Professor Niyi Osundare, award-winning Nigerian poet and distinguished professor of Literature at the University of New Orleans, USA.
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Also, a poetry book: Their Champaign Party Will End (poems in honour of Bate Besong) will also be launched.According to Ashuntantang, they are inviting Cameroonians to prop their writers.
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