ISBN 9781957296456
Pages 64
Dimensions 203mm x 127mm
Published 2025
Publisher Spears Media Press, Cameroon
Format Paperback

Gone Bananas

Poems

by John Ngong Kum Ngong

If you were an intimate friend to a gifted fine artist to go mad, how would you feel, and who would you express your feelings to? These arresting and challenging questions are at the centre of the remarkable, provocative, and inspiring poetry collection, Gone Bananas, by John Ngong Kum Ngong, one of Cameroon's prolific poets. Here, the poet goes beyond the fact that Frutang has gone bananas by indicting the society in which he grew up as being responsible for his state of mind. If you feel society can destroy people and want to be a crusader for a better one, then Gone Bananas is the collection for you. You can be certain that the thoughts and feelings Ngong brings out in this volume obtain in every society but are generally not attended to. What brings relief is sometimes bound by your pain. Gone Bananas will open your mind to who you are and why you exist.

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About the Author

John Ngong Kum Ngong

John Ngong Kum Ngong was born in Esu, Menchum Division, North West Region of Cameroon. He attended Cameroon Protestant College Bali, Bilingual Grammar School Molyko, Buea and the University of Yaoundé. He holds a Masters degree in African Literature and a Certificate in Reading in a foreign Language from the University of Birmingham, England. Winner of the 1st EduArt Bate Besong Award for Poetry in 2007 for Walls of Agony, John Ngong Kum Ngong has equally published Battle for Survival (play, 2006) and Chants of a Lunatic (poetry, 2007) all with Editions Clé. He is presently Principal of Government Bilingual High School Etoug – Ebe, Yaoundé.