Bate Besong, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bate Besong

Cameroonian writer

Date of Birth: 08-May-1954

Place of Birth: Mamfe, Southwest, Cameroon

Date of Death: 01-Jan-2007

Profession: poet, playwright

Nationality: Cameroon

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Bate Besong (1954–2007) was a Cameroonian playwright, poet and critic, who was described by Pierre Fandio as “one of the most representative and regular writers of what might be referred to as the second generation of the emergent Cameroonian literature in English".
He died on March 8, 2007 in a car accident on the Douala-Yaounde highway.On July 18, 2008, Niyi Osundare paid tribute to Besong with a speech given during the 2008 EduArt Awards for Cameroonian Literature in English.