Richard C. Kumengisa

A pioneer student of Sacred Heart College after St. Joseph’s School, Big Mankon, Richard C. Kumengisa was born in the Warders’ Barracks at Up-Station, Mendankwe, Bamenda. He worked with the West Cameroon Public Service and attended the Universities of Yaounde and Paris (La Sorbonne), before taking up a teaching career. His radio play “Singer of an Old Song” won first prize in the 1996 environmental radio drama competition organised jointly by the British Council, the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Living Earth and the BBC.