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).
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.Index On Censorship: Volume 15, Issue 10, 1986Johnnie MacViban. The Mwalimu's Reader.Kansas: Miraclaire, 2011
In 1994, he won the Editor’s Choice Award in Poetry for the National Library of Poetry Ann Arbor Review of Books:1.7, 2013 and his novel A Ripple from Abakwa was shortlisted for EduART's Jane and Rufus Blanshard Award for fiction.
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. Twilight of Crooks. Yaounde: Bakwa Books, 2021.
Essays and articles “Low Ebb for Cameroon Cinema" Bakwa magazine, December 2011.
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