By Martin Jumbam
Revised and reproduced from Cameroon Life Magazine of January 1991.
Recently, I conducted a series of interviews with Professor Abioseh Michael Porter, Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at the University of Drexel in Philadelphia, USA, on Cameroonian and African literatures. One name that came up in our conversation is that of Professor Stephen H. Arnold, retired professor of Comparative Literature, and one time Vice Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Professor Arnold was one of the founding members of the African Literature Association and was instrumental in that organization creating the Fonlon-Nichols Award.
Fifteen years ago, I conducted an interview with Professor Arnold, for the January 1991 issue of Cameroon Life Magazine, which I think is worth revisiting. In it, Professor Arnold talks lengthily about the Association of Creative Teaching (ACT), a once vibrant joint project of the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), under Professor Douglas Killam and Mrs. Elizabeth Cockburn, and the Yaoundé University Comparative African Literatures Department, under Professor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, of blessed memory. Unfortunately, that worthy project seems to have followed Dr. Fonlon to his grave! How sad!
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