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Linus Asong

Linus Asong was born in the South West Region of Cameroon in 1947. With a combined B.A honours in Education, in 1980 he entered the University of Windsor in Canada whence he graduated with a terminal degree in Creative Writing. He holds an M.A and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton Canada, and is presently Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Ecole Normale Superieure Bambili (University of Yaounde 1). Asong is a stand-up humorist, a consummate portrait painter, an accomplished literary scholar, and a celebrated prolific writer with over a dozen novels to his credit.

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Cyprian Ekwensi

Cyprian Ekwensi wrote hundreds of short stories, radio and television scripts, and several dozen novels, including children's books. His 1954 People of the City was the first book by a Nigerian to garner international attention. His most successful novel was Jagua Nana (1961), about a Pidgin-speaking Nigerian woman who leaves her husband to work as a prostitute in a city and falls in love with a teacher. He also wrote a sequel to this, Jagua Nana's Daughter.

In 1968, he received the Dag Hammarskjöld International Prize in Literature. In 2006, he became a fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters.

Books authored by Cyprian Ekwensi

The Drummer Boy

Cyprian Ekwensi

ISBN 9789966464125 | 88 pages | 216 x 140 mm | B/W Illustrations | 1960 | East African Educational Publishers, Kenya | Paperback

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Cyprian Ekwensi

ISBN 9789782462725 | 224 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1996 | Spectrum Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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Jagua Nana's Daughter

Cyprian Ekwensi

ISBN 9789782460431 | 256 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 1993 | Spectrum Books, Nigeria | Paperback

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