Sankie Maimo

Sankie Maimo (1930 – 4 September 2013) was a writer from British Southern Cameroons. Maimo moved to Ibadan, Nigeria, where he worked as a school teacher. He stayed in Nigeria from 1949 to 1962, where he founded the journal Cameroon Voice in 1955. This was followed by a play called I Am Vindicated in 1930, and a children's book called Adventuring with Jaja in 1972. https://anglocamlit.blogspot.com/2007/11/profile-sankie-maimo.html?m=1 He later produced his second play Sov-Mbang the Soothsayer in 1968, which was the only English book published by C.L.E.https://anglocamlit.blogspot.com/2007/11/profile-sankie-maimo.html?m=1 His works advocated the adoption of European values as a means to bring Africa into the wider world.

Tribute

• Sankie Maimo was awarded the Grand prix de la mémoire of the GPLA 2014.

Bibliography

• I Am Vindicated. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 1959 (Kraus reprint 1970).
• Sov-Mbang the Soothsayer. Yaounde: Editions Cle, 1968.
• Twilight Echoes. Yaounde: Cowrie Publications, 1979.
• The Mask. Yaounde: Cowrie Publications, 1980.
• Succession in Sarkov. Yaounde: SOPECAM, 1986.
• Sasse Symphony. Limbe: Nooremac Press, 1989.
• Retributive Justice or “La Shivaa.” Kumbo: Maimo, 1999.

Notes

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