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‘Literature And Cinema Are a Vital University Discipline’, says Dr. Mbye Cham

Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Post # 0062, May 23, 1997

Mbye_cham Each year, for the past several years, an Italian Catholic organization, the Centro Orientamento Educativo (COE), which has been active in various Catholic dioceses in Cameroon for nearly thirty years, organizes a festival in the northern Italian city of Milan dedicated to the African cinema. This festival provides an opportunity for African film-makers, film-critics and journalists to meet and exchange notes on the fate of the cinema, also known as the ‘7th art’, in Africa. At the March 1997 festival, I met and talked with Dr.Mbye Cham, a Gambian national, about the relevance of the cinema to literature in Africa. He lives and teaches literature and cinema as a discipline at Howard University in Washington D.C. Excerpts.

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Poetry of the late Chinese leader, Chairman Mao Dze Dong

By Martin Jumbam

Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Tribune (English version), 1989.

The late venerable professor emeritus, Dr. Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, of blessed memory, once expressed surprise that the poet-philosopher could so completely take over from the politician in Mao Ze Dong for the late Chinese leader to declare:

Maozedong "Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend." What the venerable professor did not seem to know is that at no time in Mao’s life did the poet-philosopher ever take over from the politician, or vice versa. The two were always so intimately linked that it would have been impossible to determine when one ever took over from the other.

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Film gives the youth a voice

By Martin Jumbam

Revised and reproduced from L’Effort camerounais No 71, 30 May – 13 June 1997.

RuiDuarte

A film-maker from Angola, Rui Duarte, is a dignified-looking, pipe-smoking, elderly, gracefully-greying, bald-headed gentleman, who was among a number of film-makers from Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) Africa at the 1997 African film festival in Milan. A poet of renown and a companion in arms of late Agostinho Neto, Angola’s best known poet and first President, Rui Duarte is also a professor of anthropology in Luanda with a doctorate degree from the prestigious Sorbonne in Paris. I asked him a few questions and here are his answers.

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Introduce Literature Courses In CUSS

By Martin Jumbam

Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Tribune, Tuesday, April 21, 1987.

The University Centre for Health Sciences, the school of medicine of the University of Yaounde, commonly known by its French acronym CUSS, is still lagging lamentably behind the times in one main respect at least. At a time like ours when the whole medical world is clamouring for and applauding the salutary influence of literature on medical studies, CUSS still ostensibly excludes literature from its curriculum. How unfortunate!

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